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Part of an Antependium (Depicting The Last Supper)

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Date: 1300-1310
Medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen and silk in pulled thread work in chained border, overcast, and two-sided Italian cross stitches; embroidered in satin, single satin, stem, and stem filling stitches; couching; edged with silk, plain weave tape
Culture: Germany
Department: Textiles
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 62695

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The earliest piece of German needlework in the Art Institute's collection is a square portraying that Last Supper. The piece belongs to a group of embroideries which were executed in convents in Souther Lower- Saxony, form the late thirteenth through the fifteenth century.

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Credit line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund
Provenance: Field Museum of Natural History [The Field Museum], Chicago, by 1907 [note in Ledger Book, 1900–1913, 229; memo R5771, May 1935; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1907.

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Object type: AAT300014063

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