About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Culture
- Han-Chinese
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Title
- Woman's Surcoat
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Place
- China (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1860–1890
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Medium
- Body: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped wild silk in laid work and couching; neck, front, hem, sides and sleeves: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk wrapped cotton in knot, satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching; edged with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; sleeve bands: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in knot, satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching; three ribbons: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave self-patterned by main warp floats (narrowest has gold-leaf-over-lacquered-strip-wrapped silk); lined with silk, plain weave
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Dimensions
- 97.5 × 130.2 cm (38 3/8 × 51 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Textiles Collection
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Reference Number
- 2002.167
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/157429/manifest.json
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