Two strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasuble

Two strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasuble

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

With its ornate and intricate knotwork patterning- still discernable despite the surface losses of the yellow supplementary weft- this textile is an evocative survival of Spanish, sixteenth-century weaving. When these strips were first part of The Met's collection, they were attached to an additional fragment of the same textile (17.29.16b) and assembled to imitate the front of a liturgical garment (as recorded in black-and-white photography). This was probably an early twentieth-century construction created by dealers to make the fragments more saleable.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasubleTwo strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasubleTwo strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasubleTwo strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasubleTwo strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasuble

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.