Fragment of a Dress Fabric

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Probably Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), 1601–25

Persia (present day Iran)

Status: On View, Gallery 58
Department: Textiles

Title: Fragment of a Dress Fabric
Place: Persia (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 1601–1625
Medium: Silk and silver-strip-wrapped silk; double cloth
Dimensions: 24.1 × 7.9 cm (9 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Oriental Art Sundry Fund
Reference Number: 1954.448
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Sarah Molina and Cybele Tom, “Representing and Re-Presenting Textiles,” in On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, eds. Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, L Vinebaum, and Anne Wilson, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 125, figs. 12 and 15 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Sept. 6, 2025–Mar. 15, 2026, cat.

Aldolf Loewi, Los Angeles, by Apr. 1, 1954 [incoming receipt RX1224, Apr. 1, 1954; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1954.

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