The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Fragments from a Chasuble

1300s–1400s

Germany, Cologne

Linen, silk, metal-wrapped thread: compound twill weave
Overall: 11.4 x 40.6 cm (4 1/2 x 16 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1918.306
Location: Not on view

Description

The Cleveland Museum of Art has a number of band fragments that may have been created in a workshop in Cologne, Germany, on the Rhine River. They may have been produced in series and could be adapted for various contexts. Such bands are found, for example, in very similar form on the nearby chasuble, or sleeveless outer vestment. The inscriptions Jesus and Mary on the bands also point to such a use.
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    Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952. p. 132, no. 187
    "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963): 174-215. p. 209. no. 55 www.jstor.org
    Sporbeck, Gudrun. "Liturgical vestments adorned with Cologne bands over the centuries." In Iconography of Liturgical Textiles in the Middle Ages. Eds. Evelin Wetter, Michael Bangert, Abegg-Stiftung, Michael Bangert, and Abegg-Stiftung. Riggisberger Berichte, 18. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2010. p. 183-194
  • Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 11, 2023-August 4, 2024).
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