About the Artwork
Dalmatic
15th century
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Italian
Italian
Orphreys: embroidery, silk and metallic thread on linen plain weave; velvet: silk and metallic thread
Overall (should to hem/sleeve to sleeve): 41 × 44 inches (104.1 × 111.8 cm)
Textiles
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
37.56
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Barnet, P. Clothed in Majesty: European Ecclesiastical Textiles from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1991, no. 14, pp. 26-27.
Weibel, A. C. "An Italian Dalmatic of the Fifteenth Century," Bulletin of the DIA 17, no. 2 (1937): pp. 8-9.
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Italian, Dalmatic, 15th century, orphreys: embroidery, silk and metallic thread on linen plain weave; velvet: silk and metallic thread. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 37.56.
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