Pillow Cover (Depicting the Annunciation)

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Textiles

1550/1600

Southern Germany (Swabia) or Switzerland

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Pillow Cover (Depicting the Annunciation)
Place: Switzerland (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 1550–1600
Medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool and silk in satin stitches; laid work and couching
Inscriptions: Inscription: AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DOMINUS TECUM (Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee)
Dimensions: 48.9 × 52 cm (19 1/4 × 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment
Reference Number: 1982.16
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Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1981-82): 13 (ill.).
Smithsonian Institution, Dürer and his Time: An Exhibition from the Collection of The Print Room, State Museum, Berlin, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1965-66), 50-1 and cover.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “Some Major Textile Acquisitions from Europe and Egypt,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. II, no. I (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, 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, Gallery 142, Glad Tidings of Great Joy: Christmas at The Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 18, 1994–Jan. 17, 1995.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, Apr. 10- Sept. 10, 1996.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, An International Collection of Appliquéd, Embroidered and Pieced Bedcoverings, Feb. 28–May 28, 2001.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, Aug. 6-Dec. 15, 2004.

Loewi-Robertson, Los Angeles, CA, by Jan. 21, 1982 [incoming receipt RX13340, Jan. 21, 1982; invoice, Jan. 26, 1982, Loewi-Robertson inventory no. 16768; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

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