Bedcover depicting the five senses

Unknown (Portuguese)


Item type:
textile, clothing and costume
Date of creation:
ca. 1650-1750
Height:
278.7 cm  (109 3/4 in.)
Width:
197.3 cm  (77 11/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
Silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk floss in chain stitches; backed and lined with silk, plain weave; edged with silk, warp-faced plain weave with extended ground weft fringe; silk tassels
Place of creation:
Portugal

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1982.18]Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment

Description

In the Hearing section, a woman plays a guitar.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 280da88. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1707