Chasuble

Unknown

1700–1750 · Silk, metallic · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This tabard-like priest's garment upheld a tradition of liturgical clothing worn throughout western Europe for centuries, but here brought disconcertingly into the late nineteenth century due to the garish colors achieved with its synthetic dyes and the strongly-contoured patterns of industrialized machine-weaving.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1700–1750

Medium

Silk, metallic

Culture

probably Italian

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Frank L. Babbott Fund, Frank Sherman Benson Fund, Carll H. de Silver Fund, A. Augustus Healy Fund, Caroline A. L. Pratt Fund, Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, and the Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1948