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Silk, warp-float faced satin weave; embroidered with silk floss, silk yarns, and silk-wrapped-metal purl in brick, bullion, Ceylon, chain, knot, lattice filling, overcast, running, satin, Smyrna cross, tent, and a variety of buttonhole stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; French and Turkey knots; applied areas of linen, plain weave; seed pearls, coral beads, and mica; and silk, plain weave with ground weft fringe; edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal strip, plain weave; silver hardware; wooden frame; lined with marbled paper; silk, plain weave; and silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet
Inscriptions
Inscription: R.S. I.P. 1668
Dimensions
39 × 38.3 × 29 cm (15 3/8 × 15 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland and Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp
Reference Number
1959.337
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Virginia Churchill Bath, Lace (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, c. 1974), 59.
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Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass, Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 162, fig. 40.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Seventeenth Century Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 12–June 15, 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68-69, Aug. 1988-Mar. 20, 1989.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68-69, 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 68-69, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Collection, Dec. 17, 1992–June 17, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68-69, Sept. 11, 1996- Feb. 20, 1997.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68-69, Aug. 26- Dec. 30, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68-69, June 13, 2006-Sept. 29, 2006.
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