One strip of yellow and green lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasuble
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 orphrey strip (33.39.5) and two lengths of lampas silk (33.39.4a, .4b), 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 one hand, and orphrey strip, on the other, were all intended for and used as elements within two different chasubles, long ago dismembered.
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