One strip of yellow and red lampas silk; originally part of a chasuble

Italian, possibly Lucca

Not on view

Although this object resembles the reverse of a chasuble– the tabard-like garment worn by a Catholic priest during church services– this is a modern composite of a central fragmentary figurative woven orphrey strip (33.39.13) and two lengths of lampas silk (33.39.6a, .6b), assembled soon after the three elements entered The Met's collection in 1933. Most likely not originally part of the same garment, it is probable that the side panels, on the one hand, and the central orphrey strip, on the other, were all intended for and used as elements within two different chasubles, long ago dismembered.

One strip of yellow and red lampas silk; originally part of a chasuble, Silk and metal thread, Italian, possibly Lucca

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Vertical strip fragment comprising 33.39.6b prior to being attached to fragmentary orphrey strip (33.39.13) with corresponding strip fragment (33.39.6a) in current iteration imitating the reverse of a chasuble.

One strip of yellow and red lampas silk; originally part of a chasuble, Silk and metal thread, Italian, possibly Lucca
One strip of yellow and red lampas silk; originally part of a chasuble, Silk and metal thread, Italian, possibly Lucca

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