Cope

Italy or Spain

Date

1675/1725

Medium

Silk, satin weave self-patterned by ground weft floats; embroidered with gilt- and silvered-metal coil and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped hemp in couching and padded couching; glass beads and metal spangles; edged with woven tape; closures of square braiding and in oblique interlacing; embroidered in fishbone stitches; self fringe

Dimensions

152.8 × 292.8 cm (60 1/8 × 115 1/4 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne