Fragment of a Vestment

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16th century

Armenia

Status: On View, Gallery 58
Department: Textiles

Title: Fragment of a Vestment
Place: Armenia (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 1501–1600
Medium: Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; warp-float faced satin weave with weft-float faced twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts
Dimensions: 11.7 × 32.8 cm (4 5/8 × 12 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1916.378
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Bessie Bennett, “Fragments of Old Brocades” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago XI, no. 2, (Feb. 1917): 269 (ill.).
Adèle Coulin Weibel, Two Thousand Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952),
136, no. 204 (ill.).
The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, The First One Hundred Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 193, cat. 253 (ill.).
Jerry Bleem, “Wounds, Scars, and a Bandage,” 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), 112-13, fig. 4 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago-The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23-June 19, 1977, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Allerton and Cheney Galleries, A Birthday Celebration-100 Years of Antiquarian Society Textile Collecting (1890-1990), Sept. 11, 1991-Feb. 17, 1992.
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.

Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago [B. Bennett 1917, 269]; given through the Antiquarian Society to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1916.

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