Oval Box Showing Charles II and Catherine of Braganza

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

c. 1660

England

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Oval Box Showing Charles II and Catherine of Braganza
Place: England (Object made in)
Date: Made 1650–1670
Medium: Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss foremost in satin stitch; French knots
Inscriptions: CRK 2(?)
Dimensions: 10.5 × 8.9 × 4.1 cm (4 1/8 × 3 1/2 × 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number: 1966.152
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G. Saville Seligman and Hughes, Domestic Needlework, its origins and customs throughout the centuries (London: Country Life, 1926), 85, pl. 89, fig. D, b (ill.)
Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 143, pl. 111 (ill.).
William DeGregorio and Christian Jussel, English Needlework 1600-1740: The Percival D. Griffiths Collection, vol. II (New Haven and London: Yale University Press and Crab Tree Farm Foundation, 2023), 184, no. N130 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, European Needlework (Textile Furnishings) from the Permanent Collection, Oct. 27, 1979–Jan. 27, 1980.

Percial D. Griffiths, Cheldwrickbury, England, by 1926 [Seligman and Hughes 1926, 85; DeGregorio and Jussel 2023, 184]. Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland, Chicago, by Feb. 15, 1966 [Incoming permanent receipt, RX5431, Feb. 15, 1966; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966.

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