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Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk yarns and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in Algerian eye, back, ceylon, chain, detached buttonhole, double running, plaited braid, running, square openwork and stem stitches; couching; woven wheels; lined with linen, plain weave
Dimensions
72.3 × 48.3 cm (28 1/2 × 19 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number
1945.161
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Art Institute of Chicago, “European Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” (Special Loan Exhibition held Under the Auspices of tht Antiquarian Society), May 22-June 29, 1941, cat. no. 5
Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 133, pl. 103.
Textiles of Western Cultures from The Art Institute of Chicago (Brochure for exhibition at Continental Bank, Chicago), 1977. No. 7.
V. Ann Waterman. Surface Pattern Design: A Handbook of How to Create Decorative and Repeat Patterns for Designers and Students (New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1984), p. 83.
Virginia Churchill Bath, Embroidery Masterworks: Classic Patterns and Techniques for Contemporary Application from the Textile Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1972), 33-37 (ill.).
England, Exhibtion of English Decorative Art at Landsdowne House, 1929
Art Institute of Chicago, European Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, (Special Loan Exhibition held Under the Auspices of tht Antiquarian Society), May 22-June 29, 1941, cat. no. 5, Lent by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68/69 Case, Department of European Decorative Arts, April 28- September 16,1999
Chicago, Illinois, Continental Bank, Textiles of Western Cultures from The Art Institute of Chicago,
January 17–February 18, 1977
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68/69, Case, Department of European Decorative Arts, September 12, 2005- January 9, 2006
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