Two Border Fragments

Textiles

Late 16th/early 17th century

Spain

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Two Border Fragments
Place: Spain (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 1575–1625
Medium: Linen, plain weave; pulled thread work embroidered with silk back, running and two-sided Italian cross stitches; edged with darning stitch
Dimensions: b: 16.8 × 42.7 cm (6 5/8 × 16 7/8 in.); c: 17.5 × 42.7 cm (6 7/8 × 16 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1894.23b-c
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John W. Keefe, et. al., The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 227.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Seventeenth Century Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 12–June 15, 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, A Birthday Celebration: 100 Years of Antiquarian Society Textile Collecting 1890–1990, Sept. 11, 1991–Feb. 17, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gunsaulus Hall, Department of European Decorative Arts, Aug. 6-Dec. 16, 2004.

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