Man's Cap

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Textiles

1601/25

England

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Man's Cap
Place: England (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1601–1625
Medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, in variety of buttonhole, chain, long-armed cross, ladder, outline, and running stitches; woven wheels
Dimensions: 15.9 × 19.6 × 19.6 cm (6 3/8 × 7 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Needlework and Textile Guild, Mrs. Don H. Reuben; Saks Fifth Avenue Benefit Fund
Reference Number: 1983.742
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Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “Some Major Textile Acquisitions from Europe and Egypt,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, no. 1 (Autumn 1984), 59, fig. 6 (ill.).
Supplement to The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1983-84): 27.

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gift, Bequest and Purchase - A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1982–1987, Mar. 18–Aug. 14, 1989.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68, Mar. 12-Sept. 23, 2004.

Mayorcas, Ltd., London, by Nov. 7, 1983 [invoice, Nov. 22, 1983; inventory no. 3801; incoming receipt RX14336, Nov. 7, 1983; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

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