Art Institute of Chicago
Kennett
Designed by William Morris (English, 1834–1896)LinkedCulture matchlcp-0ff1f0101033
- Date
- Design 1883, made 1887
- Medium
- Silk, satin weave with self-patterning ground wefts
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 179719
The Kenne t pattern was originally made in three different techniques: woven silk, printed cotton, and printed velveteen. These two silk panels [1971.682a,b] are all that remains of floor-to-ceiling window curtains from the parlor of Glessner House on Prairie Avenue in Chicago.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles F. Batchelder
- Provenance
- Frances Glessner (1848-1932; born Sarah Frances Macbeth; also Mrs. John J. Glessner) and John J. Glessner (1843-1936), Chicago, from Apr. 16, 1887 [according to information provided by William Tyre, May 18, 2021, and correspondence from Mrs. Charles F. Batchelder, Aug. 18, 1977. Mrs. Glessner purchased at Marshall Field’s, Chicago, Apr. 16, 1887 and installed in parlor of Glessner House, Prairie Street, Chicago; recorded in Mrs. Glessner’s personal dairy and photographed c. 1890 in Glessner House]; by descent to their daughter, Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962), Bethlehem, NH; by descent to her daughter, Martha Batchelder (born 1906; born Martha Lee; also Mrs. Charles F. Batchelder), Milton, MA [incoming receipt RX8257, Sept. 30, 1971; in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.
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- Object type
- AAT300014063
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