Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary binding warps tying supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts in 3:1 and 2:2 twill interlacings
Dimensions
44.7 × 54.2 cm (17 5/8 × 21 3/8 in.); Weft repeat: H.: 26.4 cm (10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number
1937.1282
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Christa Charlotte Mayer. Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), p. 95, plate 70.
The Art Institute of Chicago. Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976), pp. 204-5, no. 323, (illus.).
Natalie Rothstein. Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century In the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990), p. 111.
Hans Christoph Ackermann. Seidengewebe des 18. Jahrhunderts 1. Bizarre Seiden (Riggisberg, Switzerland: Abegg-Stiftung, 2000), pp. 329-331.
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, January 24–March 28, 1976
The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, A Selection of 18th Century Silks from the Permanent Collection, October 4, 1986–January 5, 1987
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
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