Pair of Men's Gloves

England

1600/50

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…
Classification
Costume and Accessories
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.)
Culture
England
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
Credit line
Through prior bequest of Chester D. Tripp
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago