About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artists
- Josef Hoffmann (Designer) , Johann Backhausen und Söhne (Producer)
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Title
- Carpet
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Places
- Vienna (Object made in), Austria (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1902-1903
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Medium
- Linen, jute and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots"
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Inscriptions
- Inscription (on reverse): JBS.
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Dimensions
- 497 × 313.7 cm (195 5/8 × 123 1/2 in.); Repeat: 108 × 97.8 cm (42 1/2 × 39 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Auxiliary Board of The Art Institute of Chicago
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Reference Number
- 1984.115
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