Fragment from the Dalmatic of San Valero

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13th century

Spain

Status: On View, Gallery 58
Department: Textiles

Title: Fragment from the Dalmatic of San Valero
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 1201–1300
Medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk; weft-faced four-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps and areas of detached plain interlacing of inner warps with complementary ground wefts
Dimensions: 13.5 × 7.8 cm (5 3/8 × 3 1/8 in.); Repeat: 2.9 × 2.9 cm (1 1/8 × 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Howell B. Erminger, Jr., Potter Palmer, R. T. Crane Jr., and Florence D. Bartlett
Reference Number: 1945.167
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Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 37, pl. 22.
Melinda Watt, “Fragmentary Understanding: Textiles in the Encyclopedic Museum,” 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), 101, fig. 9 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
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, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Sept. 6, 2025–Mar. 15, 2026, cat.

Dikran G. Kelekian, New York, by May 10, 1945 [incoming receipt R8398, May 10, 1945; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.

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