15th century
Italy
Object qualities
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Objectclothes: Cope fragment
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Type of arts & crafts
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MediumSilk
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Size32 1/4 x 18 1/2 in. (81.9 x 47 cm)
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Geography details
Italy -
Country today
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Date15th century
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CultureItalian
Source of information
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Type of sourceDatabase “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
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Fund that the source refers toMetropolitan Museum of Art
Description
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This fragment of dark blue silk velvet from a cope (a garment used in liturgical services for processions, especially by those assisting the celebrant) is patterned in an allover repeat of a seven-lobed shape in a half-patterned step repeat. The lobed shaped are symmetrically placed and filled with stylized pomegranate-like plants each sprouting seven blossoms; they are sumounted by smaller plant devices and blossoms on branches that follow the outlines of the lobed shapes.