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We have 12 objects tagged clergy.

Fragment of woven velvet with pomegranate pattern surrounded by a framework of branches, in red silk pile and gold supplementary weft patterning.

Panel (Italy), 15th century
silk, linen, wool, and metallic yarns.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-833-a/j

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 12 images of this object.

Drawing, View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)

Drawing, View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)
pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on white laid paper .
1911-28-293

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Chasuble of white silk entirely covered with embroidery in gold and silver metallic yarns and multi-colored silk floss, backed with white linen and lined with red silk. Background of couched silver, with ornamental foliage in couched gold thread and naturalistic flowers in colored silk floss.

Chasuble, 18th century
silk and metallic embroidery, silk foundation, linen backing, silk lining.
Gift of George A. Hearn.
1907-14-1

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Pair of red Cardinal's gloves with cuffs embroidered in gold metallic yarns and flat gold disks in a vine design with grape clusters. Sacred monogram, IHS, in rayed disk, embroidered in gold on back of each glove. Sewn inside one glove, a handwritten label: "Cardinal's gloves – real gold embroidery. Bought in Rome, 1897."

Gloves (Italy), 18th century
silk, metallic yarns, spangles.
Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1962-55-19-a,b

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Altar Set
(USA)

Altar Set (USA)
linen.
1943-41-1-a/d

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 11 images of this object.

Long, narrow stole with flared ends, divided into sections containing various ecclesiastical emblems including the ladder and crosses at Gesthemane, and inscriptions including L.V.C.F.V., LONGITVDO, and SEPVLCHRI. Cream ground with blue, green, and red.

Stole (Germany), 16th–18th century
silk, linen, metallic.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-404

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Fragment of woven silk with a design of off-set squares, each containing a rosette or star in brilliant blue, green, red and gold, on an ivory ground. Part of the Cope of San Valero, formerly in the Cathedral of Lérida, Spain.

Fragment (Spain), 13th century
silk, metallic.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1938-78-1

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Deep red velvet with offset repeat pattern of gold disks. The foundation is plain weave formed by a red silk warp and tan silk weft; the supplementary warp pile is red silk. The velvet pile is voided in the areas where the coin dots appear, and supplementary gold wefts are floated in pairs to the surface in these areas, bound in twill with the secondary ivory warp.

Textile (Italy), possibly 13th century
silk, metallic.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-385

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Semi-circular cape with a central square flanked by two wedge shapes and framed by multiple borders, all filled with a variety of fantastic and naturalistic birds, animals, and hunters on horses or elephants. In golden tan Tussah silk in fine chain stitch with outline and knot stitch fillings and accents on cotton ground, now mellowed to a light brown color, and covered with a fine scrolling leaf pattern in same silk in outline stitch. Similar cotton backing caught in with some of the quilting and major areas of embroidery.

Cape (India), 17th century
s-spun tussah silk embroidery, z-spun cotton foundation.
Museum purchase through gift of Elizabeth Haynes.
1951-41-1

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 18 images of this object.

Shield-shaped cope hood showing the Madonna and Child standing on a crescent within an oval, flanked by two angels on each side. The figures are embroidered in polychrome silks, while the entire background is filled with gold metallic yarns laid with couching stitches.

Cope Hood (Italy), 16th century
silk and metallic embroidery on linen foundation.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-909

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Back of a chasuble with an embroidered orphrey band down the center, embroidered motifs at the sides, and bound all around with gold braid. The deep brown velvet side panels are embroidered in gold metallic and polychrome silks with angels on orbs and floral arrangements. The center band is densely embroidered with four saints in different architectural niches.

Chasuble Back (England), 15th century
silk, metallic.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-653

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Shield-shaped cope hood, striped vertically with broad stripes of dark blue containing Arabic inscriptions in white, red and yellow, alternating with narrower stripes of red with conventionalized floral and foliate motifs in dark blue, yellow, green and white. The blue and red stripes are separated from each other by narrow stripes of green with a geometric knot-like design in red and yellow. These stripes are bordered with very narrow stripes of white, yellow, red and dark blue.
The Arabic inscription is translated as "Glory to our master the Sultan."

Cope Hood Fragment (Spain), late 14th or early 15th century
silk.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-302

This object is part of the Textiles Department collection.
There are 2 images of this object.