Chasuble back
Unknown
ca. 1705 · Silk and metal thread · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
With its bold pattern, rendered in shades of sage green, hot pink, gold and silver, this is a fine example of the distinctive, early eighteenth-century figurative silks which, in the nineteenth century, were given the name "bizarre". This textile was apparently originally used in a different context, but has been carefully preserved, patched and reused in this current iteration as a garment to be worn by a Roman Catholic priest, a tabard-like chasuble.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1705
- Medium
- Silk and metal thread
- Culture
- Italian, Venice
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1920
