Man's Bufu (Court Surcoat)

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1875/1900

Manchu
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Manchu
Title: Man's Bufu (Court Surcoat)
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 1875–1900
Medium: Silk, 1:1 plain gauze weave; embroidered with silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk in satin, stem, and tent stitches; Roumanian couching
Dimensions: 105.7 × 157.5 cm (41 5/8 × 62 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Shirley Aikens
Reference Number: 2002.199
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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): 19-20, 54, cat. 5, plate III (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. 5.

Mrs. Shirley Aiken, Lake Forest, IL, by Apr. 1982 [Temporary receipt no. 2597, Apr. 7, 1982; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

Lesson Plan: Silk around the World

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