Sutra Cover

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Sutra Cover

Place

China (Object made in)

Date

Made 1590–1599

Medium

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, gauze weave with supplementary patterning wefts; label: silk, plain weave; painted in ink; glued to paper

Dimensions

30.2 × 11.8 cm (13 1/8 × 4 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

2001.164.79

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