Lion with Palms (Rug)

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Textiles

1890/1900

After a pattern designed by Ebenezer Ross (American, active c. 1890–1900)
United States, Ohio, Toledo

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Ebenezer Ross (Designer)
Title: Lion with Palms (Rug)
Place: Ohio (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 1890–1900
Medium: Jute, plain weave with wool and cotton yarns, knitted and woven strips forming "hooked" pile; edged with cotton, twill weave
Dimensions: 152.8 × 77.3 cm (60 1/8 × 30 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
Reference Number: 1950.1136
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Anndora Morginson, “Ninteenth Century American Hooked Rugs” in Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (Sept.-Oct. 1974): 17 (ill.).
Joel and Kate Kopp, American Hooked and Sewn Rugs: Folk Art Underfoot (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1975), 80-81.
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), 100-101, cat. 41 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Nineteenth Century American Hooked Rugs, Aug.-Oct., 1974.
Art Institute of Chicago, Hooked Rugs from the Permanent Collection, Feb. 25-May 27, 1984.
Art Institute of Chicago, Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s, Sept. 21, 2019-Jan. 20, 2020.

Elizabeth Vaughan (born Tyson, 1871–1949), South Berwick, ME, and Sherborn, MA, by 1949 [incoming receipt R9946, Jan. 11, 1950; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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