Mirror Showing King Charles II, Queen Catherine of Braganza, and Scenes from the Old Testament
Place
England (Object made in)
Date
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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
Dimensions
101.9 × 74.1 cm (40 1/8 × 29 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Laurance H. Armour, Sr. in memory of her mother, Mrs. Henry Malcolm Withers
Reference Number
1963.748
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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.
Victoria and Albert Museum, International Art Treasures, 1962
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 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
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, September 6, 1988- March 30, 1989
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, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, December 17, 1992- June 17, 1993
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, September 11, 1996- February 20, 1997
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, August 26 - December 30, 1998
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