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Wooden box; covered with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in back, running, and satin stitches; laid work and couching; edged with silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and silvered-metal strips, plain weave; lined with silk, plain weave and plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; silver hardware; two glass bottles inside
Dimensions
14.9 × 20.6 × 23.4 cm (5 7/8 × 8 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number
1966.431
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Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
Chicago, Illinois, Continental Bank, Textiles of Western Cultures from The Art Institute of Chicago, January 17–February 18, 1977
The Art Institute of Chicago, European Needlework (Textile Furnishings) from the Permanent Collection, October 27, 1979–January 27, 1980
The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Seventeenth Century Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection, March 12–June 15, 1983
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990
The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68/69 case, September 25, 2003- March 12, 2004
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