Fragment (Dressing Fabric)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fragment (Dressing Fabric)

Place

China (Object made in)

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Made 1501–1600

Medium

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, chevron twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in laidwork and couching

Dimensions

173.7 × 52.1 cm (68 3/8 × 20 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the James D. Tigerman Estate

Reference Number

2004.913

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