About This Artwork

Made by Rebecca Stonier Plaisted
English, active, c. 1668

Casket Depicting Scenes from the Old Testament, 1668

Silk, warp-float faced satin weave; embroidered with silk floss, silk yarns, and silk-wrapped-metal purl in brick, bullion, Ceylon, chain, knot, lattice filling, overcast, running, satin, Smyrna cross, tent, and a variety of buttonhole stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; French and Turkey knots; applied areas of linen, plain weave; seed pearls, coral beads, and mica; and silk, plain weave with ground weft fringe; edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal strip, plain weave; silver hardware; wooden frame; lined with marbled paper; silk, plain weave; and silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet
39 x 38.3 x 29 cm (15 3/8 x 15 x 11 1/2 in.)
Inscription: R.S. I.P. 1668
Restricted gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland and Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp, 1959.337

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, "Seventeenth Century Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection," March 12–June 15, 1983

The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68/69 Case, "European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century," September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990

The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68/69 Case, "Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection," December 17, 1992–June 17, 1993

Publication History

H. Littlehales. "Stuart Needlework Cabinets and Its Containers." Connoisseur: A Magazine for Collectors. Vol. LXVIII, No. 272 (April 1924), p. 213-15 (Illus).

Antique Dealer's Fair. London, 1959.

The Art Institute Quarterly. (February 1960), p. 24-27.

Malcolm Vaughan "The Connoisseur in America." The Connoisseur. Vol. CXLVI, No. 590. (January 1961). p. 293 (Illus.).

Christa Charlotte Mayer. Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), p. 146, pl. 114.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pp. 72, 73 (Illus.), 74, 146.