<Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Owner </Th> <Td> Brooklyn Museum </Td> </Tr> <P> The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago . Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbolic history of women in Western civilization . There are 39 elaborate place settings arranged along a triangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women . Sacajawea, Sojourner Truth, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Empress Theodora of Byzantium, Virginia Woolf, Susan B. Anthony, and Georgia O'Keeffe are among the guests . </P> <P> Each unique place - setting includes a hand - painted china plate, ceramic flatware and chalice, and a napkin with an embroidered gold edge . Each plate, except the one corresponding to Sojourner Truth, depicts a brightly - colored, elaborately styled vulva form . The settings rest upon elaborately embroidered runners, executed in a variety of needlework styles and techniques . The dinner table stands on The Heritage Floor, made up of more than 2,000 white luster - glazed triangular - shaped tiles, each inscribed in gold scripts with the name of one of 999 women who have made a mark on history . </P>

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