Chasuble
CultureSpanish
Dateca. 1575-1625
MediumVelvet, silk, and metal threads
DimensionsOverall: 47 1/4 × 26 1/2 inches (120.02 × 67.31 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Kirkwood Estate
Object number34-311/11
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DescriptionMain ground: solid, red silk cut velvet. Orphreys: solid, green silk cut velvet with applied roundels of linen embroidered with polychrome silks and poor quality metal thread in long-and-short, split and straight stitches and couched work. The velvet is ornamented with couched silver cord. The roundels were outlined with red silk and gold cord (work to the linen cave) and the orphreys were bordered with bands of metal thread couched over linen threads. The edges of the chasuble are trimmed with a later silk and metal braid. It is lined with blue linen.ProvenanceWith Wm. Baumgarten & Co., New York [1];
Probably William Rockhill Nelson (1841-1915), Oak Hall, Kansas City, MO, by 1915 [2];
Probably inherited by his daughter, Laura Nelson Kirkwood (1883-1926), Kansas City, MO, 1915-1926;
Inherited by her husband, Irwin Kirkwood (1878-1927), Kansas City, MO, 1926-1927;
Kirkwood Estate, 1927-1934;
Gift of the Kirkwood Estate to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] According to a label attached to the object.
[2] This is one of a group of objects that came to the Nelson-Atkins from the family of William Rockhill Nelson, one of the museum’s founders, and is thought to have been in Nelson’s home, Oak Hall.
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