Pair of Men's Gloves
1600/50
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 silk, bobbin straight lace; metal spangles
35.5 × 19.2 cm (14 × 7.6 in)
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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026
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