Snuff Box: Portrait of Duchess of Marlborough
Gift of Harry H. Blum
Catalogue
- Year
- 1770
- Dimensions
- 4 × 8.3 × 6.4 cm (1 9/16 × 3 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Courtois
Artist
Textile
Design in the style of Courtois (French, active c. 1732–1733)
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Panel
1732 · Silk and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts, ground weft floats and secondary binding warps tying some self-patterning ground wefts in a plain interlacing; two loom widths joined
Panel
1732 · Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, supplementary facing wefts and brocading wefts, and self-patterned by two-color complementary ground wefts; two fragments pieced
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified