About This Artwork

Italy

Border Made into a Collar, Late 16th/early 17th century

Linen, three bands of needle lace worked on a plain weave; cut and drawn work grid; edged with bobbin straight lace
22.1 x 150.3 cm (8 3/4 x 59 1/4 in.)
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Jessie Spalding Landon Fund, 1937.451

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Masterpieces of Western Textiles," January 25–March 2, 1969

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years," April 23–June 19, 1977

"Fashion Items and Textiles Pertaining to Fashion"
The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29 - July 16, 1978

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seventeenth Century Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection," March 11–June 15, 1983

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "A Birthday Celebration: 100 Years of Antiquarian Society Textile Collecting 1890–1990," September 11, 1991–February 17, 1992

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "The Magic of Lace,"
June 27, 2001–June 9, 2002

Publication History

Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pp. 78-9, 146.