Chasuble
1450-1500 (made)
Blue velvet, probably Italian, woven with a pattern of conventional foliage. On the orphreys, prophets and saints beneath architectural canopies with vaults and crenellations. On the cross-orphrey, reading upwards, a prophet, St. John the Evangelist with cup, Christ crucified, with two mourning angels and the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove. On the front orphrey, reading upwards, Moses with the tables of the law, St. Thomas with a carpenter's square, a prophet with a scroll.
Lining of linen printed in stripes with floral decoration, dark brown on undyed linen.
Orphrey: silver-gilt thread and coloured silks in split and brick stitches and couched work on linen.
From Opus Anglicanum 1963 catalogue.
Lining of linen printed in stripes with floral decoration, dark brown on undyed linen.
Orphrey: silver-gilt thread and coloured silks in split and brick stitches and couched work on linen.
From Opus Anglicanum 1963 catalogue.
Object details
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| Brief description | Chasuble, blue silk velvet, with embroidered orphreys, 1450-1500, English/Italian; silk probably Italian, embroidery English. Lined with printed linen, striped with flowers, brown on natural. |
| Physical description | Blue velvet, probably Italian, woven with a pattern of conventional foliage. On the orphreys, prophets and saints beneath architectural canopies with vaults and crenellations. On the cross-orphrey, reading upwards, a prophet, St. John the Evangelist with cup, Christ crucified, with two mourning angels and the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove. On the front orphrey, reading upwards, Moses with the tables of the law, St. Thomas with a carpenter's square, a prophet with a scroll. Lining of linen printed in stripes with floral decoration, dark brown on undyed linen. Orphrey: silver-gilt thread and coloured silks in split and brick stitches and couched work on linen. From Opus Anglicanum 1963 catalogue. |
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| Object history | Provenance: Found, with other liturgical textiles (including burse 831-1901), in an oak chest in a farmhouse at Abbey Dore, Herefordshire. The mention of Perthir in a fragment of a letter found with the textiles suggests that they were used by one of the Franciscans established at that place (not far from Abbey Dore) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the Opus Anglicanum catalogue, 1963, p.56. |
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| Accession number | 839-1901 |
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| Record created | June 28, 2006 |
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