Embroidered Miter (1700s): Art, History and Details

Embroidered Miter (1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Only the pope bestowed miters on cardinals and bishops. This spectacular miter glistens with brilliant gilt-metal thread, enriching the symmetrical decoration on an allover silver-metal thread ground, embroidered in brick stitch. The splendid long lappets evolved from secular headgear that tied under the chin.

Object facts

• Title: Embroidered Miter
• Date: 1700s
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Embroidery
• Technique: silk; metal thread embroidery on silk
• Dimensions: Overall: 92.5 x 30.8 cm (36 7/16 x 12 1/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Ecclesiastical
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1942.834

Collection credit

Bequest of John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.

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