Table Carpet

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Textiles

1600/10

Southern Germany, probably Württemberg

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Title: Table Carpet
Origin: Germany
Date: Made 1600–1610
Medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool, silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in cross, half cross, plaited and tent stitches
Dimensions: 210.3 x 184 cm (82 7/8 x 72 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Emily Crane Chadbourne Fund
Reference Number: 1968.162

Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago. November–December 1972. pp. 6-7.
Pamela Clabburn. Masterpieces of Embroidery (Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1981), pp. 20 (illus.), 21.
Patricia Wardle. “Salvation and Virtue: An Embroidered Table Carpet of the Late Renaissance.” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies. vol. 16, no. 2 (1990), pp. 121-177.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Textile Acquisitions since 1967, July 10, 1972–April 30, 1973
The Art Institute of Chicago, European Needlework (Textile Furnishings) from the Permanent Collection, October 27, 1979–January 27, 1980
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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