id: 144912 accession number: 1970.124 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.124 updated: 2022-01-04 16:41:53.732000 Part of a Chasuble, c. 1500. England, London (embroidery) and Italy, Florence (velvet), early 16th century. Silk, gold filé; appliqué, embroidery: couching stitches Velvet: solid pile, silk; overall: 101 x 52.8 cm (39 3/4 x 20 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Arts Club 1970.124 title: Part of a Chasuble title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1505 current location: creditline: Gift of The Textile Arts Club copyright: --- culture: England, London (embroidery) and Italy, Florence (velvet), early 16th century technique: Silk, gold filé; appliqué, embroidery: couching stitches Velvet: solid pile, silk department: Textiles collection: T - Ecclesiastical type: Embroidery find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 101 x 52.8 cm (39 3/4 x 20 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club opening date: 1984-11-21T05:00:00 Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21-December 30, 1984). title: Only for Beauty? (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2014-12-08T05:00:00 Only for Beauty? (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 2014-December 7, 2015). title: Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2020-12-19T05:00:00 Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 2020-April 11, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * --- PROVENANCE (Mme. Jacques Bacri). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Although missing the central decorative band, these two velvet panels embroidered with angels and thistles originally formed part of the back of an ecclesiastical chasuble.

The term opus anglicanum, or English work, refers to English embroidery dating from the 1100s through the 1500s, like this example. Made primarily in embroidery guilds in London, it was in great demand for royal and ecclesiastical garments and furnishings throughout Europe. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. 1971. “The Year in Review for 1970.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58 (2): 22–71. page number: p. 79 no. 119, illus. p. 31 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361 “Annual Report for 1970.” 1971. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58 (6): 162–94. page number: p. 174 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152381 Young, Bonnie. "Opus Anglicanum." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 29, no. 7 (1971): 291-98. Accessed December 20, 2020. page number: p. 291-298 url: www.jstor.org/stable/3258645 Christa Mayer-Thurman. 1973. “Recent Acquisition: An English Cope.” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1973-1982) 67 (2). page number: p. 4-5 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4111219 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 123 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n143 Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984. page number: p. 30 url: Staniland, Kay. Embroiderers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. page number: url: Monnas, Lisa. 1994. "Opus Anglicanum and Renaissance Velvet: The Whalley Abbey Vestments". Textile History. 25:1. page number: p. 3-28 url: Bergemann, Uta-Christiane. “Serial Production of Embroidered Orphreys in the Late Middle Ages.” in Wetter, Evelin, and Michael Bangert. Iconography of Liturgical Textiles in the Middle Ages. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2010. page number: p. 171-182 url: Heard, Kate. “‘All holie companye of heaven’: Uniformity and Individuality in the Iconography of Late Medieval English Orphreys.” In Wetter, Evelin, and Michael Bangert. Iconography of Liturgical Textiles in the Middle Ages. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2010. page number: p. 155-162 url: Browne, Clare Woodthorpe, Glyn Davies, M. A. Michael, and Michaela Zöschg. English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum. 2016. page number: url: Michael, M. A. The Age of Opus Anglicanum. 2016. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.124/1970.124_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.124/1970.124_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.124/1970.124_full.tif