Length of Woven Silk

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Textiles

1735/38

France

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Length of Woven Silk
Place: France (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 1735–1738
Medium: Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and some supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 3:1 twill interlacings
Dimensions: 154.1 × 52.6 cm (60 5/8 × 20 3/4 in.); Repeat: 53.5 × 25.4 cm (21 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Textile Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1969.720
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1967, July 10, 1972–April 30, 1973
The Art Institute of Chicago, European Decorative Arts, Gallery 66, August 23- December 20, 1990
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Collection, February 17–May 2, 1993
The Art Institute of Chicago, European Decorative Arts, Gallery 66, January 6- May 1995
The Art Institute of Chicago, European Decorative Arts, Gallery 66, January 21- May 1, 1998
The Art Institute of Chicago, European Decorative Arts, Gallery 66, January 21- May 15, 2003

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