Back of a chasuble
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This garment is almost certainly a dealer's composite object, assembled towards the end of the nineteenth century to meet the demands of the lively antiques' market. Though resembling a priestly chasuble, it is unconventionally large and combines a very low quality, thin and relatively modern patched velvet with a much older set of embroideries. The embroideries have been very heavily restored, indeed the saint figures (Saints Paul and Barbara on the front; the Virgin and Child, Saints Peter and Lucy on the reverse) may have been cut out of a historic textile and reapplied onto modern, embroidered niches designed in pastiche Renaissance style.
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