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The chasuble’s exquisite symmetrical decoration highlights its central panel where three illusionary gold containers hold skillfully shaded fruit in pastel silk tones. Delicately curving motifs enhance the side panels along with finely stitched strawberries in so-called French knots. This liturgical chasuble and other vestments, worn over a white alb with lace, were embroidered by professional specialists, such as experts who shaded colored silks or secured gold thread, in early versions of assembly lines that were usually in secular workrooms or in convents. The church or commissioner supplied the raw materials and paid a fee for the work.
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95745
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Chasuble
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95745
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Chasuble
description
The chasuble’s exquisite symmetrical decoration highlights its central panel where three illusionary gold containers hold skillfully shaded fruit in pastel silk tones. Delicately curving motifs enhance the side panels along with finely stitched strawberries in so-called French knots. This liturgical chasuble and other vestments, worn over a white alb with lace, were embroidered by professional specialists, such as experts who shaded colored silks or secured gold thread, in early versions of assembly lines that were usually in secular workrooms or in convents. The church or commissioner supplied the raw materials and paid a fee for the work.
date
1700s
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q79477854
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Embroidery
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 113.6 x 75.7 cm (44 3/4 x 29 13/16 in.)
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Italy or Spain
accession
1916.1442
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Silk and metallic threads: embroidery
tombstone
Chasuble, 1700s. Italy or Spain. Silk and metallic threads: embroidery; overall: 113.6 x 75.7 cm (44 3/4 x 29 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade, 1916.1442
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T - Ecclesiastical
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
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2026-05-29 05:08:48.666000
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95745
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Textiles
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T - Ecclesiastical
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Silk and metallic threads: embroidery
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