About This Artwork
Mirror Showing King Charles II, Queen Catherine of Braganza, and Scenes from the Old Testamentc. 1665
Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk floss and yarns, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, gilt metal purl and cardboard in brick, overcast, running, satin, and split stitches; couching, padded couching and laid work; French knots, braided pom pons and seed pearls; in tortoise-shell frame
101.9 x 74.1 cm (40 1/8 x 29 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Laurance H. Armour, Sr. in memory of her mother, Mrs. Henry Malcolm Withers, 1963.748
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Victoria and Albert Museum, "International Art Treasures," 1962
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Masterpieces of Western Textiles," January 25–March 2, 1969
The Art Institute of Chicago, "European Needlework (Textile Furnishings) from the Permanent Collection," October 27, 1979–January 27, 1980
The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery,
"Seventeenth Century Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection," March 12–June 15, 1983
"European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century" (in conjunction with)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68/69 (Case), September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990
Publication History
International Art Treasures, Exhibiton at Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1962. repr. #248.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pp. 74-76, 146.