Dressing Box Depicting the Finding of Moses and Scenes from Abraham and Hagar

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Textiles

Third quarter of the 17th century

England

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Dressing Box Depicting the Finding of Moses and Scenes from Abraham and Hagar
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.: Made 1650–1675
Medium: Wooden box; covered with silk, satin weave; appliquéd with silk and linen, plain weaves and twill plaited tapes; embroidered with silk, metal threads, and linen in a variety of stitches; laid work, buttonhole couching, couching, and French knots; mica and pearls; edged with woven tape; silver feet
Dimensions: 21.3 × 38.7 × 32.4 cm (8 3/8 × 15 1/4 × 12 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, Bertha Palmer Thorne, Rose Movius Palmer, and Mrs. Gordon Palmer
Reference Number: 1969.136
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G. Saville Seligman and Huges, Domestic Needlework, its origins and customs throughout the centuries (London: Country Life, 1926), 87, fig. A, bpl. 88 (ill.)
Art Institute of Chicago, European Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Special Loan Exhibition held under the auspices of The Antiquarian Society (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941), cat. no. 63 (ill.).
William DeGregorio and Christian Jussel, English Needlework 1600-1740: The Percival D. Griffiths Collection, vol. II (New Haven and London: Yale University Press and Crab Tree Farm Foundation, 2023); 224-25, no. N150 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, European Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Special Loan Exhibition held under the auspices of The Antiquarian Society, May 22-June 29, 1941, cat. no. 63.
Art Institute of Chicago, European Needlework (Textile Furnishings) from the Permanent Collection, Oct. 27, 1979–Jan. 27, 1980.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68, Mar. 12-Sept. 23, 2004.

Percial D. Griffiths, Cheldwrickbury, England, by 1926 [Seligman and Hughes 1926; DeGregorio and Christian Jussel 2023, 224]. Mrs. Potter Palmer [born Pauline Kohlsaat, died 1956], Chicago, by 1929 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from 1929, loan number 649.29]; by descent within the family; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.

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