Needlework (Depicting the Five Senses)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1601/25

England

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Department: Textiles

Title: Needlework (Depicting the Five Senses)
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 1601–1625
Medium: Silk, satin weave; embroidered in silk floss foremost in buttonhole, couched, knot, padded and outlining, "purl" and satin stitches; chenille; areas of raised work
Dimensions: 45 × 56 cm (17 3/4 × 22 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Potter Palmer II through the Needlework and Textile Guild
Reference Number: 1927.539
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S.H. Hailstone, Illustrated Catalogue of Ancient Framed Needlework Pictures, Both formed by and in the possession of Mrs. S. H. Lilla Hailstone, (London: Baines & Scarsbrook, 1897), plate II, no. 76 (ill.)
Early English Earthenware and other Works of Art (London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1913), exh. no. 1.
William DeGregorio and Christian Jussel, English Needlework 1600-1740: The Percival D. Griffiths Collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press and Crab Tree Farm Foundation, 2023); vol. 1, appendix 1, Fig 1.52 in situ; vol. II164, N111 (ill.).

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of a Collection of Early English Earthenware and other Works of Art, Dec. 2, 1913-Feb. 1914, exh. no. 1.
Art Institute of Chicago, European Needlework (Textile Furnishings) from the Permanent Collection, Oct. 27, 1979-Jan. 27, 1980.

Sarah Hariette Lilla Hailstone, London, by 1897 [Hailstone 1897]. Percial D. Griffiths, Sandridgebury, England, by 1913 [Burlington Fine Arts Club 1913; DeGregorio and Jussel 2023, 164]; sold to Frank Partridge & Sons, London, 1925 [note on incoming receipt R3318, May 2, 1927; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

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