About This Artwork

Italy

Border, Late 16th/early 17th century

Linen, square netting; embroidered with linen in cloth stitches; edged with linen in chained loops
25.1 x 138.8 cm (9 7/8 x 54 5/8 in.)
Restricted gift of Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior, Mrs. Arthur Kelly, Mrs. Alva W. Phelps, Mrs. Peter McKinney, Mrs. John J. Bransfield, Jr., and the 1993 Silk Worm Travel Group, 1993.226

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Twenty Years of Textile Society Collecting (1978–1998)," December 20, 1997–March 22, 1998

Publication History

Christa C. Mayer Thurman and Jessica Batty. “Border,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003). pp. 22-23 (color illus.).




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