Chasuble
1789-1800 (made)
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Cream silk chasuble embroidered with silk yarns in satin and chain stitch. On the back is the Crown of Thorns, the Agnus Dei, the inscription 'Ecce Salvator mundi', and floral bouquets within a cross-shaped border, surrounded by symmetrical trailing floral stems. These floral stems continue onto the front of the chasuble, which is also embroidered down the middle with floral bouqets.
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| Brief description | Chasuble, 1789-1800, French, embroidered flowers on white silk |
| Physical description | Cream silk chasuble embroidered with silk yarns in satin and chain stitch. On the back is the Crown of Thorns, the Agnus Dei, the inscription 'Ecce Salvator mundi', and floral bouquets within a cross-shaped border, surrounded by symmetrical trailing floral stems. These floral stems continue onto the front of the chasuble, which is also embroidered down the middle with floral bouqets. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Ecce Salvator Mundi (Embroidered into the roundel in the centre of the back cruciform orphrey band (below the lamb of god).)
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| Credit line | Given by Georges Seligman |
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| Accession number | T.169-1915 |
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| Record created | November 14, 2006 |
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