Fragment

Textiles

13th century

Italy or Spain

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Fragment
Place: Italy (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 1201–1300
Medium: Silk, complementary weft twill weave with inner warps
Dimensions: 13 × 32.7 cm (5 1/8 × 12 7/8 in.); Repeat: 4.5 × 9.5 cm (1 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment
Reference Number: 1976.336
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Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Recent Acquisitions: A Collection of Thirteenth-and Fourteenth-Century Woven Fabrics in Chicago, Textile History 20, 2 (1989): 250-251, fig. 2 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.

Loewi-Robertson, Los Angeles, CA, from June 1976 [according to research from Loewi-Robertson Archive; invoice, inventory no. 15811, Nov. 6, 1976; incoming permanent receipt RX10814, Nov. 5, 1976; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976.

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