Fragment of a Block-Printed Silk

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1860

Central Europe, probably Germany

Status: On View, Gallery 58
Department: Textiles

Title: Fragment of a Block-Printed Silk
Place: Central Europe (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 1860
Medium: Silk, plain weave; block printed
Dimensions: 13.7 × 13 cm (5 3/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1984.524
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Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “Recent Acquisitions: A Collection of Thirteenth-and Fourteenth-Century Woven Fabrics in Chicago,” Textile History 20, 2 (1989): 262, note 1.

Possibly Munich, Theresienhöhe, Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art (Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art), May 14, 1910, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gift, Bequest and Purchase: A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1982–1987, May 1-Aug. 13, 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, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Sept. 6, 2025–Mar. 15, 2026, cat. (not in cat.)

Private collection, Paris, by Oct. 21, 1983 [this and the following according to Loewi-Robertson archive document, 1989; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Loewi-Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 21, 1983 [invoice, inventory no. 17109, July 18, 1984; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

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