Basket

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Textiles

c. 1645

England

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Department: Textiles

Title: Basket
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 1640–1650
Medium: Metal frame worked with glass beads, applied motifs of gold and silver leafed paper and linen, plain weave; beaded
Dimensions: 14.5 × 63.1 × 52 cm (5 3/4 × 24 3/4 × 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Frederick Clay Bartlett through the Needlework and Textile Guild
Reference Number: 1927.883
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G. Saville Seligman, Domestic Needlework, its origins and customs throughout the centuries,” (London: Country Life, 1926), fig. A, b, pl. 98A (ill.),
Virginia Bath, Embroidery Masterworks (Chicago: Regnery, 1972), 48-52, 107 (ill.).
Valerie Hector, The Art of Beadwork: the Historic Interpretation, Contemporary Design (New York: Garsington: Watson-Guptill; Windsor, 2002).
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), 254-55, no. N169 (ill.)

Art Institute of Chicago, European Needlework (Textile Furnishings) from the Permanent Collection, Oct. 27, 1979–Jan. 27, 1980.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery,
Seventeenth Century Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 12–June 15, 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68/69, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, Feb. 4-May 4, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, June 17, 1993-Feb. 22, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, Jan. 20, 1995-Mar. 29, 1996.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, Sept. 16, 1999-Feb. 9, 2000.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, May 31-Sept. 25, 2003.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, Jan. 14- Sept. 9, 2005.

Percial D. Griffiths, Cheldwrickbury, England, by 1913 [William DeGregorio and Christian Jussel 2023, 254]. With Frank Partridge, New York, by Nov. 17, 1926 [Incoming permanent receipt R3079, Nov. 17, 1926; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

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