Chasuble (1700s): Art, History and Details
Chasuble at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1700s, embroidery, silk. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Chasuble (1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The silk thread in this chasuble, a liturgical vestment worn over an alb, is exceptionally lustrous. The lavish allover floral and foliate decoration in pastel shades on golden stems and the ivory ground were embroidered with shiny floss silk—soft silk filaments that form loosely twisted instead of tightly twisted thread. The floss silk is crossed with parallel lines of thread in matching colors that are secured by a third thread from underneath, called laid and couched-work embroidery. The dazzling effect illustrates skilled workmanship.
Object facts
- Title: Chasuble
- Date: 1700s
- Culture: Italy
- Type: Embroidery
- Technique: embroidery, silk
- Dimensions: Overall: 114 x 69.7 cm (44 7/8 x 27 7/16 in.)
- Collection: T - Ecclesiastical
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1916.1441
Collection credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
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