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Chasuble Back

1450/1500
Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warp in weft-float faced 1:4 'S' twill interlacings and with two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet
123.4 × 65.8 cm (48.6 × 25.9 in)

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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026

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