Two chasubles in silk velvet, Italy and Spain, Renaissance period. The most remarkable one fashioned in a beautiful crimson velvet cut with a typical pomegranate of the end of the Italian quattrocento, orphreys materialized by a gold woven braid (wear and tear); the second one in plain crimson velvet, central orphreys with embroidered flowery scrolls in silk couchure, gold or silver threads set with applied gold cordonet (buckram lining, missing braids)

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