About this artwork
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- Textiles
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Culture
- Manchu
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Title
- Empress' Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe)
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Origin
- China
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Date
- Made 1790–1820
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Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; painted details; trimmed with cords of gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk couched with silk; sleeves: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave; edging and closures: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, 4:1 satin damask weave; cuffs lined with silk, 4:1 satin weave; metal buttons
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Dimensions
- 146.3 × 195.2 cm (57 5/8 × 76 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Clayton W. Miller
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Reference Number
- 1946.459
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