Art Institute of Chicago
Cope
Probably SpainLinkedCulture matchlcp-a093e9c2472c
- Date
- 1450-1500
- Medium
- Silk cut velvet embroidered with couched gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; later additions: orphrey band
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 36999
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Velvet textiles were often employed as the foundation for ecclesiastical vestments, the ceremonial attire worn by European clergy. The pattern on the velvet is created by additional gold thread embroidery. The design, known as ferronerie (the French word for ironwork), appears to have been a Spanish specialty. On this cope (a long semicircular cape), the embroidered band that traditionally decorated the long edge was replaced at some point with a modern fabric.
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- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Walter Byron Smith
- Provenance
- Reportedly Baron Jean-Germain-Léon Cassel van Doorn, Brussels, Belgium, Paris, Cannes, and Englewood, NJ (1882–1952) [recorded on Blumke Gallery invoice, Oct. 11, 1971; copy in curatorial object file]. Blumka Gallery, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.
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- Object type
- AAT300014063
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