Chasuble

Artists

Description

Chasuble of deep blue silk cut velvet with applied embroidery orphrey panels front and back. Front panels depict Saint James the Greater (top), a bearded male saint (bottom), both standing on a tile floor under a niche. Back panels from top to bottom are separated by decorative elements (a shell, a mosque motif and a stained glass motif): a half-length female saint, a martyred monastic saint and a half-length annunciating angel. Embroidery incorporates split and couched stitches.

Dimensions

99 × 54 cm (39 × 21 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Harry G. Friedman, New York, Gift to Fogg Museum, 1960.