A chasuble of green velvet, the rare front orphrey embroidered with Instruments of the Passion, the back with the Crucifixion, with the Virgin Mary and St. John and God the Father above - the Rhine, possibly Westphalia, first quarter of the 16th century (worn)

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A chasuble of green velvet, the rare front orphrey embroidered with Instruments of the Passion, the back with the Crucifixion, with the Virgin Mary and St. John and God the Father above - the Rhine, possibly Westphalia, first quarter of the 16th century (worn)
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There were two similar orphreys in the Hugo Benario Collection, Berlin 1927, nos.669, 896., plate 8

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