Needlework Picture Depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

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Needlework Picture Depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

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Date
17th century, c. 1640
Medium
Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk floss and frisé yarns, gilt-metal purl, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, metal pieces, and paillettes in detached chain, running, satin, split and tied herringbone stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching
Culture
England
Department
Textiles
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
109312

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Credit line
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Provenance
Henry Mitchell, London [this and the following according to Wasserman invoice, Nov. 10, 1965; copy in curatorial object file]; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 2, 1965, lot 57 to E. Simmons [Sotheby's sales cat.]. Otto M. Wasserman, New York, by Nov. 1, 1965 [invoice, inventory no. D 787, Nov. 10, 1965; incoming receipt RX5319, Nov. 1, 1965; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1965.

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AAT300014063

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