Part of an Antependium (Depicting The Last Supper)

Textiles

1300-1310

Germany

The earliest piece of German needlework in the Art Institute’s collection is a square portraying that Last Supper. The piece belongs to a group of embroideries which were executed in convents in Souther Lower- Saxony, form the late thirteenth through the fifteenth century.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Part of an Antependium (Depicting The Last Supper)
Place: Germany (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 1300–1310
Medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen and silk in pulled thread work in chained border, overcast, and two-sided Italian cross stitches; embroidered in satin, single satin, stem, and stem filling stitches; couching; edged with silk, plain weave tape
Dimensions: 38.3 × 39.4 cm (15 1/8 × 15 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1907.765
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Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 123, pl. 95.
Christa C. Mayer, “An Early German Needlework Fragment” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 6 (1971): 66-76.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 36-37, 144.
Laura K. Bruck, Larry J. Feinberg, and Christina M. Nielsen, “The Thirteenth Century,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004): 46-47, cat. 26.
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), 8-14 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Vestments and Liturgical Textiles from the Permanent Collection, July 27–Oct. 9, 1983
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Collection, Feb. 17–May 2, 1993
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gloria in Excelsis Deo - Heralding a Vestment Collection, Sept. 11, 1996–Jan. 12, 1997
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 142, “Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Sept. 20, 2004–Jan. 4, 2005

Field Museum of Natural History [The Field Museum], Chicago, by 1907 [note in Ledger Book, 1900–1913, 229; memo R5771, May 1935; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1907.

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