id: 98512
accession number: 1918.232
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.232
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Fragment, probably from a Chasuble, 1400s. Italy. Silk with cut and voided velvet; overall: 66 x 29.9 cm (26 x 11 3/4 in.); mounted: 76.2 x 40.6 cm (30 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1918.232
title: Fragment, probably from a Chasuble
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creation date: 1400s
creation date earliest: 1400
creation date latest: 1499
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creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: Italy
technique: Silk with cut and voided velvet
department: Textiles
collection: Textiles
type: Velvet
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measurements: Overall: 66 x 29.9 cm (26 x 11 3/4 in.); Mounted: 76.2 x 40.6 cm (30 x 16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church
opening date: 2003-09-07T00:00:00
Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2003-September 26, 2004).
title: Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115
opening date: 2018-12-05T05:00:00
Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 5, 2018-December 2, 2019).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Gallery 214 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 1984).
Gallery 214 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 1994).
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PROVENANCE
Bacri Frères
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Luxurious velvet fabrics were woven in several different grades based on the quality and quantity of the raw materials. Those with extensive gold thread and plush silk pile were the most luxurious. This green velvet is of a lower grade. The popular 15th-century pattern of five-lobed palmettes displaying pomegranates or blossoms is arranged in staggered rows. Velvet pile was omitted in areas to create the pattern, known as "voided" velvet. Since projecting pile required quantities of silk thread, voided velvet was less expensive to manufacture than solid-pile velvet or brocaded velvet.
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