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A FRENCH CHASUBLE OF "CLOTH OF GOLD"
Late 19th Century
The orphrey panels outlined with silver metal braid, the centre of the back with a pelican pecking her breast to feed her young worked in silver metal purl and sequins, the applied halo embroidered with gilt sequins, with similar maniple and stole;
a 'cloth of gold' chasuble, late 19th Century, French, the orphrey panels outlined with silver metal braid, the centre back appliqu with the Holy Ghost as a dove in silver metal purl and threads within an applied gilt sequin halo, with matching stole; and a similar cope hood;
a gold moir chasuble, late 19th Century, French, the centre back embroidered and appliqu mainly in gilt and silver metal-threads with two doves, one drinking from an urn?, with matching stole and maniple
See Wardrobe VII

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