Lace Border Fragement

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1750-1825

Bohemia (now Czech Republic)

Status: On View, Gallery 58
Department: Textiles

Title: Lace Border Fragement
Place: Bohemia (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 1750–1825
Medium: Linen, silk, and gilt-strip-wrapped and silver-strip-wrapped silk; bobbin part-lace
Dimensions: 10.3 × 46.3 cm (4 1/8 × 18 1/8 in.); Repeat: W.: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1900.3169
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Melinda Watt, “Fragmentary Understanding: Textiles in the Encyclopedic Museum,” in On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, eds. Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, L Vinebaum, and Anne Wilson, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 99, fig. 7 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The Magic of Lace, June 27, 2001–June 9, 2002.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Sept. 6, 2025–Mar. 15, 2026, cat.

The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1900.

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