Sutra Cover

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Sutra Cover

Place

China (Object made in)

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Made 1590–1599

Medium

Silk and cotton, warp-float faced 3:1 broken twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts some bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill

Dimensions

36.2 × 13.7 cm (14 × 5 3/8 in.); Weft repeat: H.: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and The Walter E. Heller Foundation Endowment

Reference Number

2001.164.16

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