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Chasuble
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Chasuble of deep blue silk cut velvet with applied embroidery orphrey panels front and back. Front panels depict Saint James the Greater (top), a bearded male saint (bottom), both standing on a tile floor under a niche. Back panels from top to bottom are separated by decorative elements (a shell, a mosque motif and a stained glass motif): a half-length female saint, a martyred monastic saint and a half-length annunciating angel. Embroidery incorporates split and couched stitches.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Harry G. Friedman New York Gift to Fogg Museum 1960.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Harry G. Friedman
Title: Chasuble
Description:
Chasuble of deep blue silk cut velvet with applied embroidery orphrey panels front and back.
Front panels depict Saint James the Greater (top), a bearded male saint (bottom), both standing on a tile floor under a niche.
Back panels from top to bottom are separated by decorative elements (a shell, a mosque motif and a stained glass motif): a half-length female saint, a martyred monastic saint and a half-length annunciating angel.
Embroidery incorporates split and couched stitches.
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