Embroidery with Allegorical and Mythological Motifs

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Textiles

1660s

Peru, probably Lima

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Department: Textiles

Title: Embroidery with Allegorical and Mythological Motifs
Place: South America (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 1660–1669
Medium: Silk embroidery on cotton foundation textile
Dimensions: 285 × 237 cm (112 1/4 × 93 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Pauline Seipp Armstrong and Irving and Jane Seaman endowment funds
Reference Number: 2020.207
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Peck, Amelia, Amy Elizabeth Bogansky, et. al. Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013) 161-3, cat. 19.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Interwoven Globe; The Worldwide Textile Trade, Sept. 16, 2013–Jan. 5, 2014, cat.19 (ill.).

Private collection, France, consigned to Hôtel Drouot, Paris [this and the following according to an email from A. Kennedy to M. Watt, Dec. 8, 2019, and auction advertisement in curatorial object file]; sold to Alan Kennedy, Santa Monica, CA and Junnaa and Thomi Wroblewski, London, on Oct. 31, 2003; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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