Fragment (Furnishing Fabric)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fragment (Furnishing Fabric)

Place

China (Object made in)

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Made 1775–1850

Medium

Cut solid satin velvet, silk with orange warp and weft and orange-red and green pile. Design of both field and border is green peony scrolls on red ground. In the field, Buddhist emblem of sonorous stone repeated twice. Green silk lining

Dimensions

86.4 × 59.7 cm (34 × 23 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson

Reference Number

1932.873

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