Object details
Object number
T11e13
Creator(s)
French
Title
Bookmark or Badge with a Figure of a Warrior
Date
about 1916
Medium
Silk tabby over linen tabby embroidered with white silk yarns with metal covering and brown silk yarns
Description
Inscription, Human figures
Dimensions
40 x 6.4 cm (15 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Printed (front): Gloire, A la Sainte, A la Grande, A la Héroique, Russie, 1914, 1916
Provenance
Probably entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 1916.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Adolph S. Cavallo. Textiles: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1986), p. 163, ill, no. 120. (as French, dated about 1916; erroneously identified as museum no. T11e15)
Gallery
Macknight Room
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