Empress' Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe)

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1790/1820

Manchu
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Manchu
Title: Empress' Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe)
Place: China (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1790–1820
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
Dimensions: 146.3 × 195.2 cm (57 5/8 × 76 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Clayton W. Miller
Reference Number: 1946.459
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John E. Vollmer, “Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago,” published in conjunction with the exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, no. 2 (2000): 460-61, cat. 27 (ill.).
Christina M. Nielsen, “Empresss’s Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe” in “The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 33, 1 (2007), 58-59 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 13, 2000–Jan. 2, 2001, cat. 27.

Mrs. Clayton W. Miller, Chicago, by May 1946 [incoming permanent receipt R8646, May 9, 1946, on loan to the AIC as 33.1946; copy in curatorial object file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.

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