Cabinet or Writing Box
1601–1700
- Medium
- Wooden box; covered with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in back, running, and satin stitches; laid work and couching; edged with silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and silvered-metal strips, plain weave; lined with silk, plain weave and plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; silver hardware; two glass bottles inside
- Dimensions
- 14.9 × 20.6 × 23.4 cm (5 7/8 × 8 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (fiber)glassneedlework (visual works)Textile