Cope Fragment

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15th century · Silk · Robert Lehman Collection

This fragment of dark blue silk velvet from a cope (a garment used in liturgical services for processions, especially by those assisting the celebrant) is patterned in an allover repeat of a seven-lobed shape in a half-patterned step repeat. The lobed shaped are symmetrically placed and filled with stylized pomegranate-like plants each sprouting seven blossoms; they are sumounted by smaller plant devices and blossoms on branches that follow the outlines of the lobed shapes.

Artist

Unknown

Date

15th century

Medium

Silk

Culture

Italian

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 1975.1.1822