Long Stole

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1795-1810

French

In addition to fine cashmere wool shawls, other materials were used to create shawls and stoles inspired by the elegant Kashmir shawl. Here, ethereal Indian muslin is embroidered with roses that sway like their Kashmir buta (paisley) counterparts.

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Department: Textiles

Title: Long Stole
Place: France (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 1795–1810
Medium: Cotton, plain weave foundation; embroidered with cotton thread in stem and satin stitches and French knots
Dimensions: 295.9 × 94 cm (116 1/2 × 37 in.)
Credit Line: Belle M. Borland Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2019.793
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Private collection, Paris, sold to Villa Rosemaine, Toulon, France, 2014 [according to email from S. Liagre, May 2, 2019; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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