Fragment of Embroidery

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Yüan dynasty (1279–1368), 14th century

China

Status: On View, Gallery 58
Department: Textiles

Title: Fragment of Embroidery
Place: China (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 1301–1400
Medium: Silk, satin damask weave; embroidered with silk in knot and open chain stitches over gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips
Dimensions: 14.6 × 56.8 cm (5 3/4 × 22 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment
Reference Number: 1998.318
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Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, “Gift, Bequest, and Purchase: 1998–2003,” Oct. 22, 2004–Apr. 17, 2005.
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.)

Esther Fitzgerald Rare Textiles, London, by Apr. 15, 1998 [incoming receipt, RX21928, Apr. 15, 1998; invoice 9861, June 15, 1998; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.

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