The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Fragment of a Chasuble Orphrey Cross Band

Fragment of a Chasuble Orphrey Cross Band

1000s
Location: not on view

Description

This fragment shows four small gold birds outlined in white and enclosed in a compartment formed by a white band decorated with small diamonds in gold. White lines with squares at the end containing small gold diamonds project from band at intervals. Along the top and bottom of the piece is a guilloche band. Interlaced lines are gold with salmon outlines on gold ground.
  • ?-1931
    Dr. C. S. Reber, Lausanne, Switzerland, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1931-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Witte, Fritz. Die liturgischen Gewänder und kirchlichen Stickereien des Schnütgenmuseums Köln. Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1926. p.12, Tafel 12 (2)
    Capitani d'Arzago, Alberto de, and Ferdinando Reggiori. Antichi tessuti della Basilica Ambrosiana. Milano: "L'Arte", 1941. pl. XVIII, fig. 49
    Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944. p. 10, pl. 20, cat. no. 66
    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. 125, pl. 156
    Abegg-Stiftung Bern, Michael Stettler, Karel Otavsky, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Brigitta Schmedding. Abegg-Stiftung Bern a Riggisberg = Abegg-Stiftung Bern in Riggisberg. Bern: Paul Haupt, 1971. Tafel 16
    Württembergisches Landesmuseum, and Reiner Haussherr. Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte, Kunst, Kultur : Katalog der Ausstellung [Stuttgart, Altes Schloss und Kunstgebäude, 26. März-5. Juni 1977]. Stuttgart: Württembergisches Landesmuseum, 1977. Vol. I p. 626-7; Vol. II p. 573
    Collingwood, Peter. The Techniques of Tablet Weaving. London: Faber and Faber, 1982. p. 345-46, pl. 203
    Spies, Nancy. Ecclesiastical Pomp & Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands. Jarrettsville, MD: Arelate Studio, 2000. p. 277
    Pritchard, Frances. Crafting Textiles: Tablet Weaving, Sprang, Lace and Other Techniques from the Bronze Age to the Early 17th Century. 2021. p. 1-69
  • 2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).
    The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
  • {{cite web|title=Fragment of a Chasuble Orphrey Cross Band|url=false|author=|year=1000s|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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