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Sample (Chinese New Year)

A work made of silk, silvered-metal wire, and cotton bouclé, raffia, nylon-wrapped-metallized-polyester film, and metallized-polyester-film-wrapped cotton and metal-foil-laminated-in-cellulose-acetate film, plain weave with warp fringe.

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  • A work made of silk, silvered-metal wire, and cotton bouclé, raffia, nylon-wrapped-metallized-polyester film, and metallized-polyester-film-wrapped cotton and metal-foil-laminated-in-cellulose-acetate film, plain weave with warp fringe.

Date:

1993

Artist:

Designed by Robert D. Sailors (American, 1913–1995)
Produced by Robert D. Sailors Fabrics
United States, Florida, Cortez

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Robert D. Sailors (Designer)

Title

Sample (Chinese New Year)

Place

Florida (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 1993

Medium

Silk, silvered-metal wire, and cotton bouclé, raffia, nylon-wrapped-metallized-polyester film, and metallized-polyester-film-wrapped cotton and metal-foil-laminated-in-cellulose-acetate film, plain weave with warp fringe

Dimensions

30.2 × 13.2 cm (11 7/8 × 5 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Christa C. Mayer Thurman

Reference Number

2001.41

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