Chasuble

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Synergizing centuries' old Catholic practice with Industrial Age France, the two floral silks decorating this priest's vestment- a tabard-like Chasuble intended to be worn over the alb and other clothing when officiating church services- were woven on a Jacquard loom, using synthetic dyes. The whole is edged and ornamented with machine-woven gold-colored braid. The front of the garment's exaggerated tear-drop shape was fashionable throughout the nineteenth century.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art