Art Institute of Chicago
Length of Woven Silk
NetherlandsLinkedCulture matchlcp-928afdc5bfad
- Date
- 1730s
- Medium
- Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by ground wefts; two selvages present
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 35431
Chinoiserie—a European interpretation of East Asian art—held special appeal in the Netherlands. Dutch weavers in Amsterdam developed a singular style of chinoiserie patterns for silk weaving. Their highly detailed compositions of figures and flowers were sometimes mistaken for Japanese textiles, and this may have been the desired effect.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Tripp
- Provenance
- Chester D. Tripp (died 1974) and Jane Tripp (born Bancroft Shiverick, died 1974), Chicago, IL, by Dec. 1, 1970 [Incoming permanent receipt RX7761, Dec. 1, 1970; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.
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- Object type
- AAT300014063
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