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Unknown Maker, English

Chasuble

Now On View

Maker

Culture

English

Title

Chasuble

Year

1475-1500

Medium

Ribbed silk and wool ground embellished with metallic- and silk-yarn embroidery

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Ribbed silk and wool ground embellished with metallic- and silk-yarn embroidery

Materials

silk, metallic yarn

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf

Object Number

15.011

Type

Textiles

Exhibition History

European Galleries

Sep 02, 2017

Label copy

The chasuble is the outermost garment worn by clergy during Mass, and the most elaborately decorated. This example features richly embroidered applied panels on the orphrey (central border) depicting Saint Catherine with her attributes: the spiked wheel and the sword that executed her. The style of needlework is known as opus anglicanum (English work), a generic name for the elaborate silver and gold embroidery produced in medieval England in service of the church. Works like this one were typically made by professional embroiderers or nuns.

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, English

Chasuble, 1475-1500

Ribbed silk and wool ground embellished with metallic- and silk-yarn embroidery

Gift of Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf 15.011

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