Hanging

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Textiles

1675/1725

Portugal

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Hanging
Place: Portugal (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 1675–1725
Medium: Face and backing: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered through both thicknesses with cotton, in chain stitch; French Knots; fringe border: silk, plain weave with weft fringe
Dimensions: 276.2 × 199.2 cm (108 3/4 × 78 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Needlework and Textile Guild in memory of Mrs. Harold M. Keele
Reference Number: 1981.88
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“Portugal and the East through Embroidery: 16th to 18th Century Coverlets from the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1981), 6, 12.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “Some Major Textile Acquisitions form Europe and Egypt” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 1 (Fall 1984): 52-69.

Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1978, July 10–Oct. 10, 1982.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Seventeenth Century Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 12–June 15, 1983.

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