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Corded pendant for an ecclesiastical vestment
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Pendant consisting of embroidered panels of couched metallic yarns and outlined in red silk suspended from a braided cord with black and white chevrons. From top to bottom:
1) medallion with cartouche embroidered "SITIO" on ground of silver lamé and filé
2) knotwork with sponge and pincers (instruments of the Passion) intricately braided silver gilt filé and lamé (ground: warp-face yellow silk plain weave with supplementary filé and lamé stitched to red silk plain weave)
3) square embroidered medallion illustrating the "Kiss of Judas" (split stitch and French knots, 1 lamé, 4 filé pattern)
4) 5-rung ladder in black and white
5) Veronica's veil with painted Christ's face (couched ground with gilt lamé strip alternating with 4 filé; split stitch and painting on satin)
6) Scourge (instrument of Passion) on knotwork
7) Cock in square medallion (split stich; eye or bullion stitch)
8) Pillar in 3D (braiding over wooden core)
9) Christ's garment in a square medallion (couched gilt lamé and filé)
10) St. Peter's sword (knotwork over padding - 3D look)
11) Money bag in square medallion (sattin stitch)
12) 4 spools (?) in black and white
13) Silver basin and pitcher on left; 3 dice on right (satin and split stitch); Maltese cross flanked by knotwork motifs below
Four tassles at bottom
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Nettie G. Naumburg New York Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum 1930.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
Title: Corded pendant for an ecclesiastical vestment
Description:
Pendant consisting of embroidered panels of couched metallic yarns and outlined in red silk suspended from a braided cord with black and white chevrons.
From top to bottom:
1) medallion with cartouche embroidered "SITIO" on ground of silver lamé and filé
2) knotwork with sponge and pincers (instruments of the Passion) intricately braided silver gilt filé and lamé (ground: warp-face yellow silk plain weave with supplementary filé and lamé stitched to red silk plain weave)
3) square embroidered medallion illustrating the "Kiss of Judas" (split stitch and French knots, 1 lamé, 4 filé pattern)
4) 5-rung ladder in black and white
5) Veronica's veil with painted Christ's face (couched ground with gilt lamé strip alternating with 4 filé; split stitch and painting on satin)
6) Scourge (instrument of Passion) on knotwork
7) Cock in square medallion (split stich; eye or bullion stitch)
8) Pillar in 3D (braiding over wooden core)
9) Christ's garment in a square medallion (couched gilt lamé and filé)
10) St.
Peter's sword (knotwork over padding - 3D look)
11) Money bag in square medallion (sattin stitch)
12) 4 spools (?) in black and white
13) Silver basin and pitcher on left; 3 dice on right (satin and split stitch); Maltese cross flanked by knotwork motifs below
Four tassles at bottom.
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