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Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin damask with brocading wefts
Dimensions
52 × 50.6 cm (20 3/8 × 19 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number
1945.162
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Christa Charlotte Thurman, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 86, plate 64.
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Christa Mayer-Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 23, 25, 143.
Two Thousand Years of Silk Weaving, An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts, exh. cat. (New York: Weyhe, 1944), no. 312, pl. 69.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Two Thousand Years of Silk Weaving, Jan.–Mar. 1944.
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, Raiment for the Lord’s Service: A Thousand Years of Western Vestments, Nov. 15, 1975–Jan. 18, 1976.
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, 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, Gunsaulus Hall, Department of European Decorative Arts, Mar. 31-June 29, 2005.
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