Border Fragment

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Late 16th–early 17th century

Spain

Status: On View, Gallery 58
Department: Textiles

Title: Border Fragment
Place: Spain (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 1575–1625
Medium: Linen, plain weave; silk pulled thread work embroidery and edged with darning stitches
Dimensions: 17.1 × 58.7 cm (6 3/4 × 23 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of The Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1894.23a
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Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Soceity of The Art Institute of Chicago, The First One Hundred Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 227.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Ap. 23-June 19, 1977, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Seventeenth Century Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 12-June 15, 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, A Birthday Celebration-100 Years of Antiquarian Society Textile Collecting 1890-1990, Sept. 11, 1991-Feb. 17, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gunsaulus Hall, Department of European Decorative Arts, Aug. 6-Dec. 16, 2004.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Sept. 6–Mar. 15, 2006, cat. (not in cat.)

Hadji Ephraim Benguiat (1852-1918), by Jan. 1, 1984 [this and the following according to Old Register, 64; Institutional Archives]; sold to the Chicago Society of Decorative Art [later The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago), by Jan. 1, 1984; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894.

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