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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 collection.
There are 12 images of this object.

A marble pulpit dramatically suspended between two flights of stairs, designed by de Waily, forms a bridge-like structure across the nave of the Church of Saint Sulpice. A priest, with upraised arms, preaches to the congregation seated in the foreground. A sculpture of Charity adorns the top of the pulpit. A sculpture of Faith (holding a chalice) adorns the left landing; the pedestal shows a bas-relief of the symbol of St. Luke (ox). On the right landing, a sculpture of Hope (holding an anchor) rests on a pedestal decorated with a bas relief of St. Mark's symbol (the lion).

Drawing, View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project), 1789
pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1911-28-293

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

Gothic revival-style with architectural elements including columns, stairs and fretwork. Also contains landscape elements. Printed in grisaille or shades of gray.

Sidewall, The Monastery, ca. 1900
machine-printed paper.
Gift of Mrs. Newton Perkins.
1903-17-3-a/d

This object was made by Thomas Strahan & Co., Manufactory.
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Square mantilla of black Chantilly lace with a cross in the center and a design of floral swags forming a deeply scalloped innter border; bunches of flowers are placed within each scallop.

Mantilla (France), 19th century
silk.
Gift of Mrs. George Nichols from the collection of her mother, Mrs. J.P. Morgan.
1939-66-45

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Fragment from an altar frontal in coarse cream-colored linen embroidered in silk in red, light green, light blue, and white. In the center field, the Crucifixion: Christ on the cross with bowed head, with blood dripping from the hands and three red cuts across the body. A figure appears on each side, possibly St. John the Baptist on the right and Mary with a sword at her breast on the left; both figures wear long straight robes with simple geometric patterns. Christ's face appears to be re-worked, and that of St. John is very worn. With a deep border of curving vines with three-lobed leaves. At corners are winged beasts with tails (wyverns).

Square (Germany), 14th century
silk and linen embroidery on linen foundation.
Museum purchase in memory of Elizabeth Haynes.
1949-7-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 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 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 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 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 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 collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Complete chasuble of red figured velvet with woven orphrey bands of a different velvet, edged all around all areas with gold metallic ribbon.The side panels are of red cut and uncut velvet in a satin foundation in a large-scale scrolling floral design. The orphrey bands are of cut and uncut velvet in reds, pinks and greens on a white satin ground in a large-scale, symmetrical floral design. Lined with linen.

Chasuble (Italy), 17th century
silk, metallic trim, linen lining.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, from the textile collection of Mrs. Abram....
1931-4-67

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 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 collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Fragment of woven fabric with a lion and bird of prey on a curving vine with exotic flowers and foliage, in red with touches of white and blue on a yellow background.

Fragment, 17th century
silk, linen.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1896-1-26

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Fragment of woven silk with large tangent roundels. Each roundel contains a symmetrical design of a bearded man strangling a lion in each arm. A small animal is under each lion's feet and a pair of small birds appear between the strangler's feet. The roundel frame consists of confronted griffons with pearl guard bands.
The ornament in the interspaces consists of three concentric 8-pointed stars surrounded by eight radiating plant forms (pointed decorative trees alternating with scrolls terminating in palmettes).
At the bottom of the piece, a horizontal band of ornamented Kufic script repeats (upside down) written normally and in reverse with guilloche guard bands.
In dark green and crimson on cream ground fading into yellow in some areas. Face, hands, feet, belt disks of lion strangler, and heads of lions are brocaded with cream silk wound with gilded vellum.

Fragment, The Lion Strangler, early–mid-12th century
silk, gilded vellum with silk core.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-220

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

Rectangle of linen needle lace with a lion-like animal in an oval central medallion. The surrounding field is filled with small-scale flowers and foliage. Scalloped edging of attached braid on four sides. Knotted tassels on three corners.

Chalice Cover (Italy), late 17th–early 18th century
linen.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1896-1-112

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

Fragment of woven silk containing six pearl roundels, in sky blue and dark green on a red ground. The top two roundels enclose confronted elephants, the middle two addorsed senmurvs, and the bottom two confronted hippocampi. Four-lobed rosettes with elaborate floriated edges in interspaces.

Fragment (Spain), 11th–12th century
silk.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-222

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Fragment containing an incomplete roundel enclosing a pair of confronted lions. The roundel has a dentate outer border, and an inner border which is a debased rendering of the Sassanian pearl motive, in which the pearls are squared off. Scaled outlines to all parts of the design. In dark blue, greenish-tan, cream, and at least one other shade of light tan on golden tan ground (all possibly faded).

Fragment (Iran), 10th century
silk.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-211-a/h

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Chalice veil of red silk taffeta embroidered in silver metallic yarns. In the center "I.H.S." is embroidered in a circular frame of wheat and grapes. In each corner, a spray of roses and carnations in gathered with a bowknot; connected by scrolling lines. Edged with narrow gold bobbin lace.

Chalice Veil (France), 18th century
metallic embroidery on silk foundation.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1950-121-62

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Square punto in aria needle lace chalice cover with a biblical subject, possibly Christ at Gethsemane, in the center field, surrounded by a double border of highly stylized floral forms.

Chalice Cover (Italy), 17th century
linen.
Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1962-50-20

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Altar frontal composed of five panels of embroidered silk. The center panel shows the Madonna and Child, surrounded by stars, in an oval made from pearls and rosettes, and supported by angels on all sides. The remaining panels each feature a large bird, surrounded by flowering branches filled with smaller birds. Metallic fringe all the way around.

Altar Frontal (China (for European market)), 18th century
silk, metallic (gilt paper-wrapped onto silk core).
1974-99-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 17 images of this object.

Fragment of woven silk with eight-pointed stars containing regardant leopards or cheetahs alternating with palmettes and leaf forms. The stars are formed from parallelograms with lattice-like fillings. The leopard or cheetah pairs are surrounded by inlaced bands and pointed foliage. In cream and gold on a dark blue ground.

Textile (Spain), 15th century
silk, metallic (gilded parchment wound around linen core).
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-251

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

Fragment of woven silk with a pattern floral medallions in a framework of circles, eight-pointed stars and strap work in green, blue, gold and white on a red ground.

Fragment (Spain), 14th century
silk, metallic yarns (gilded parchment wound around linen core).
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-311

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 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 collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Tapestry Fragment (Spain)

Tapestry Fragment (Spain)
silk, metallic (gilded parchment wound around silk core).
1902-1-82

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

Two roughly rectangular choir seats, each carved on undersurface, with shallow rests supported by: a stooped figure of a bearded man flanked by foliate roundels (-1a); head of a bearded man with flowing hair, flanked by foliate roundles (-1b); each seat with indentations for hinges on lower left and right.

Misericord (2) (England), early 14th century
carved wood (oak), gilding (traces).
Gift of Architectural League of New York.
1912-1-1-a,b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Fragment of woven silk with two tangent roundels, each containing a senmurv.

Fragment (Spain), 13th century
silk.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-214

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Border of natural-colored linen embroidered in red silk; the embroidery fills the background, and the figures are reserved in the foundation linen. Within a framework of entwined branches, two episodes from the story of Abraham and Isaac: Isaac gathering the firewood, and the Angel staying Abraham's sword. With upper and lower borders of birds, animals and flowers. Red needle lace edging top and bottom.

Band (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1962-52-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Central horizontal band of two rows of kufic inscription in mirror image vertically, flanked by bands of rosettes enclosing quatrefoils on one side, roses and stars enclosing quatrefoils on the other side. Incription in white on gold ground; rosettes in blue and gold on a ground of white and gold; stars in rose, blue, white and gold. Guard stripes of red and white.

Fragment (Spain), 1250–74
silk, gilded vellum on silk core.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-978

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Interior of Byzantine-style church with large, low dome decorated with standing figures and ornamentation in mosaic. Medallions in pendentives. Altar set in apse with half-dome. Removable chairs.

Photograph, View of the Interior of an Unidentified Church, 1905–10
printed on sensitized paper mounted on linen.
1961-83-60

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

Hexagonal pulpit model in the Gothic Style.

Pulpit Model (England), ca. 1850
stained oak.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2007-45-3

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

with central column around which a bombe spiral staircase rotates terminating in a similarly curved inverted cone form standing area of the pulpit surmounted by a carved scroll canopy attached above to the column, all resting a rectangular geometrically inlaid marquetry floor-base

Pulpit Model With Staircase (France), mid-19th century
carved, inlaid, marquetried, and veneered walnut, pear, and oak.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2007-45-13

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Birdcage (a) of wooden slats, dowels and metal wire in the form of a church with peaked roof; walls of clerestory-like gothic style arches; at one end a rectangular bell tower with three large, circular, painted clock faces, and door with inverted heart-shape perforation. Wood and sheet metal under tray (b) pulls out at left side. Small loop handle of brass on roof.

Church Birdcage, mid-19th century
turned, cut, and stained mahogany, cherry, pine, cut brass, wire,....
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1916-19-83-a,b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Small square sampler embroidered in pale silks on a natural linen ground. The central image is of a church with a steeple on a hill, with a tree, two girls, a dog and a sheep. A deep border of white roses surrounds the scene on three sides.

Sampler (USA), ca. 1800
silk embroidery on linen warp, cotton weft.
Gift of Myra M. and William H. Mathers.
2008-31-13

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.