id:			110051
accession number:	1928.653
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.653
updated:		2020-02-12 09:00:07.499000

Fragmentary Chasuble with Woven Orphrey Band , 1300s. Italy (Chasuble) and Germany (Orphrey). Silk and gold thread, lampas weave; embroidered orphrey; overall: 106.7 x 68.6 cm (42 x 27 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1928.653

title:				Fragmentary Chasuble with Woven Orphrey Band 
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creation date:			1300s
creation date earliest:		1300
creation date latest:		1399
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Italy (Chasuble) and Germany (Orphrey)
technique:	Silk and gold thread, lampas weave; embroidered orphrey
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Ecclesiastical
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 106.7 x 68.6 cm (42 x 27 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Gothic Art 1360-1440
	opening date:   1963-08-06T04:00:00
	<i>Gothic Art 1360-1440</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 6-September 15, 1963).

	title:		Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy- Gallery 115 Rotation – December 2018
	opening date:   2018-12-08T05:00:00
	<i>Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy- Gallery 115 Rotation – December 2018</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland Museum of Art, "2000 Years of Silk Weaving" [March 18-April 16, 1944]; Detroit Institute of Arts [May 12-June 4, 1944]; Los Angeles County Museum [Jan. 9-Feb. 29, 1944].<br>Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery,  "The International Style,"  [Oct. 23-Dec. 30, 1962]<br>Cleveland Museum of Art, "Gothic Art, 1360-1440"  [Aug. 8-Sept. 15, 1963].&#9;<br>Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, "Raiment for the Lord's Service, A Thousand Years of Western Vestments"  [Nov. 11, 1975 - Jan. 18, 1976].<br>New York, Asia House Gallery, "Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World" [Winter, 1979], also Cincinatti Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and the St. Louis Art Museum.<br>CMA,  "Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages,"  [Jan. 22 - March 17, 1985].<br>CMA gallery 216, installed 7/91.<br><br>Textiles installation (gallery 115): November 27 2012 - December 9, 2013.

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The second half of the 14th century was one of the great periods of Italian silk design. Drawing upon Chinese and Islamic as well as European motifs, designers created international designs of beauty and drama. This rare, fragmentary chasuble displays a Chinese phoenix with outstretched wings flying toward a group of pseudo-Arabic letters while a dog snarls at the bird. Arabic script was associated with the Holy Land. Although generally decorative rather than legible, it was incorporated in Italian silk patterns during the 1300s and 1400s and in paintings frequently decorating the border of the Virgin’s mantle and occasionally her halo.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 163
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n41

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 60
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n84

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 60
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n84

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 69
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n89

	Müller, Kathrin. <em>Musterhaft naturgetreu: Tiere in Seiden, Zeichnungen und Tapisserien des 14. und 15.</em> <em>Jahrhunderts.</em> Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2020.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 62, abb. 18
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