Glasägget (Glass Egg) (Sample of Drapery Fabric from the Skyttelvägen (Shuttleway) Collection)

Provenance

The artist, Stockholm, Sweden; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

Glasägget (Glass Egg) (Sample of Drapery Fabric from the Skyttelvägen (Shuttleway) Collection)

Astrid Sampe

1948

Accession Number

105444

Medium

Linen, wool and fiberglass, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterned by areas of main warp and ground weft floats

Dimensions

27.5 × 21.4 cm (10 7/8 × 8 1/2 in.); Repeat: 4.8 × 4.5 cm (1 7/8 × 1 3/4 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Astrid Sampe