Chasuble

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late 16th or early 17th century · Silk; linen · Robert Lehman Collection

This chasuble (a liturgical garment worn during the celebration of the Mass) is fashioned of yellow-green velvet patterned in an allover repeat of a small-scale diamond shape with eight protruding points in a stepped configuration framed by double zigzag lines. Cut and voided velvets in symmetrical stylized floral designs like this were produced in Italy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The orphery areas are delineated with very narrow tape which matches that outlining the edges and neck opening.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 16th or early 17th century

Medium

Silk; linen

Culture

Italian

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975