Two Joined Panels of Brocaded Yellow Furnishing Wool

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Textiles

c. 1720s

England, Probably Norwich

Patterned woven wool fabrics were employed for both upholstery and clothing. The city of Norwich, in Norfolk, is commonly known as the primary center for weaving wool in the 18th century. Fine woolen textiles were the backbone of the English economy for hundreds of years, from the late middle ages until well into the 19th century. Britain’s North American colonies provided a ready market for luxury goods like these patterned wool fabrics. In fact, a dress in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg is made of a very similar textile (inventory number 1988.223).

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Two Joined Panels of Brocaded Yellow Furnishing Wool
Place: England (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.: c. 1720–1729
Medium: Wool, worsted, damask weave; brocaded
Dimensions: Overall: 90.2 × 88.9 cm (35 1/2 × 35 in.); Each panel: 90.2 × 45.7 cm (35 1/2 × 18 in.)
Credit Line: Mary Ann Judy Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.216
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Cora Ginsburg (1912-2003), New York, by 1979 [according to email from T. Halle to M. Watt on Apr. 1, 2020, Halle saw the object in Ginsburg’s collection in 1979, and it was later included in an exhibition at Kent State in the 1980s as part of Ginsburg’s collection; copy in curatorial object file]. Cora Ginsburg LLC, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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