Pair of Men's Gloves

1600–1650

Medium: Gloves: leather; Gauntlets: silk, satin weave; embroidered with linen, gilt-metal-coiled wire and strips, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in couching and padded couching; ribbons of silk, plain weave; edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, bobbin straight lace; metal spangles
Dimensions: a: 35.5 × 19.2 cm (14 × 7 1/2 in.); b: 35.2 × 20.5 cm (13 7/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
Genre: Textile
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago