Bodice

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Textiles

16th century

England

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Department: Textiles

Title: Bodice
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
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 1501–1600
Medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, silvered-metal-strip-wrapped fiber, and linen in chain and seed stitches
Dimensions: 42.5 × 45 cm (16 5/8 × 17 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number: 1945.159
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The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, European Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1941), cat. 11 (ill.).
Mildred Davison, “Textile Committee Exhibition,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly L, no. 2 (Apr. 1, 1956): 22-23 (ill.).
Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 130, pl. 100 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, European Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, May 22-June 29, 1941. cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Textile Committee Exhibition: Needlework and Textiles, Jan 18–Jun 18, 1956
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Fashion Items and Textiles Pertaining to Fashion
Apr. 29–July 16, 1978.

Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland (1881-1978; born Belle McCullough, also Belle Borland), Chicago, by 1941 [The Antiquarian Society 1941]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.

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