Length of Woven Silk

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Textiles

1730s

Netherlands

Chinoiserie—a European interpretation of East Asian art—held special appeal in the Netherlands. Dutch weavers in Amsterdam developed a singular style of chinoiserie patterns for silk weaving. Their highly detailed compositions of figures and flowers were sometimes mistaken for Japanese textiles, and this may have been the desired effect.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Unknown
Title: Length of Woven Silk
Place: Netherlands (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 1730–1739
Medium: Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by ground wefts; two selvages present
Dimensions: 112.4 × 78.7 cm (44 1/4 × 31 in.); Repeat: 50.4 × 39.6 cm (19 7/8 × 15 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Tripp
Reference Number: 1970.1094
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Chester D. Tripp (died 1974) and Jane Tripp (born Bancroft Shiverick, died 1974), Chicago, IL, by Dec. 1, 1970 [Incoming permanent receipt RX7761, Dec. 1, 1970; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

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