The delicate facial features and soft, ornamental drapery outlining the body of Christ and the Virgin typify the style of the court school of Prague in the early fifteenth century, as does the embellishment of the background with golden disks. The embroidery is part of an orphrey that would have decorated a priestly robe.
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Title:Orphrey Panels from a Chasuble
Date:early 15th century
Geography:Made in Prague
Culture:Bohemian
Medium:Silk and metal thread
Dimensions:a-Chasuble: 39 1/4 × 29 in. (99.7 × 73.7 cm) b-Coronation of the Virgin: 20 11/16 × 8 5/16 in. (52.5 × 21.1 cm) c-Christ the Redeemer: 16 13/16 × 7 13/16 in. (42.7 × 19.8 cm)
Classification:Textiles-Costumes-Ecclesiastical
Credit Line:The Cloisters Collection, 1961
Accession Number:61.16a–c
Dr. Emil Delmár, Budapest and New York ; Dr. Emil Delmár Estate, Budapest and New York (sold 1961)
New York. The Cloisters Museum & Gardens. "Ecclesiastical Vestments of the Middle Ages: An Exhibition," March 1–December 31, 1971.
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University Park, PA. Palmer Museum of Art. "The Art of the Needle," October 16, 1980–December 19, 1980.
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Kunstmuseum Bern and Conrad von Mandach. Kunst und Kunstgewerbe: Sonderausstellung 1939/40. Bern, 1939. no. 48, fig. 48.
Weibel, A. C. "A Late Medieval Chasuble Cross." The Art Quarterly 9 (1946).
L'art ancien en Tchécoslovaquie. Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1957.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Ninety-First Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year 1960-1961." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 20, no. 2 (October 1961). p. 68.
Husband, Timothy B. "Ecclesiastical Vestments of the Middle Ages." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 29, no. 7 (March 1971). p. 286, fig. 4, 5.
Wilckens, Leonie von. Die textilen Künste: von der Spätantike bis um 1500. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1991. p. 252, fig. 283.
Boehm, Barbara Drake, and Jiri Fajt, ed. Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. no. 94, pp. 241–42.
Fajt, Jiri, and Barbara Drake Boehm, ed. Karel IV., Císař Boží Milosti: Kultura a Umění za Vlády Posledních Lucemburků 1347–1437 (Charles IV, Emperor by the Grace of God: Culture and Art in the Reign of the Last of the Luxembourgs 1347–1437). Prague: Prague Castle Administration, 2006. no. 8.16.1–2, p. 67, (acc. no. misidentified as 6116.b–c).
Fajt, Jiri, and Barbara Drake Boehm, ed. Karl IV., Kaiser von Gottes Gnaden: Kunst und Repräsentation des Hauses Luxemburg 1310-1437. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006. no. 87a–b, pp. 250–51, 253.
"20 Years in Emigration: Emil Delmár and the Disintegration of His Collection." In Hungary in Context: Studies on Art and Architecture. Budapest, 2013. pp. 235–36, fig. 7.
Fajt, Jiri, and Markus Hörsch, ed. Kaiser Karl IV., 1316–2016: Erste Bayerisch-Tschechische Landesausstellung. Ausstellungskatalog. K*700. Prague: Národní Galerie v Praze, 2016. p. 503.
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