Woman's Changfu (Informal Court Robe)

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), late 19th/early 20th century

Manchu
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Manchu
Title: Woman's Changfu (Informal Court Robe)
Place: China (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1875–1925
Medium: Silk, plain gauze weave; embroidered in back and stem stitches; sleeve facings: silk, plain gauze weave; embroidered in back, knot, overcast, stem, and straight stitches; laid work and couching; ribbon: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and extended weft loop fringe; sleeves trimmed with silk, plain weave; metal buttons
Dimensions: 146.1 × 121.5 cm (57 1/2 × 47 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Guy H. Mitchell
Reference Number: 1932.40
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John E. Vollmer, et al., “Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago,” published in conjunction with the exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, no. 2 (2000): 35-6, 63, 91, cat. 32, plate XVI (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 13, 2000–Jan. 2, 2001, cat. 32.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Asian Art, Gallery 108, July 27–Nov. 19, 2004.

Guy H. Mitchell (1870–1962), Chicago, by Jan. 19, 1932 [incoming receipt R5008, Jan. 19, 1932, ℅ A. B. Hossander, Illinois Merchants, Chicago; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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