Emperor's Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe)

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Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1790-1820

Manchu
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Manchu
Title: Emperor's 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 tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; embroidered with silk in satin and stem stitches; painted details; sleeves: bands of silk, plain weave and of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave; edging and closures: silk, cotton, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, satin damask weave; sleeves lined with cotton, plain weave; metal buttons
Dimensions: 156.2 × 200.7 cm (61 1/2 × 79 in.) Shoulder to hem: 53.2-54.5 cm (21-21 1/2 in.) Sleeve length: 69.6 cm (27 3/8 in.) Fuki height: 24.6 cm (9 3/4 in.) Width at hem: 130.2 cm (51 1/4 in.) Width of sleeve panel: 65.6 cm (25 3/4 in.) Width of hem center front panel hem overlap: 7.2-9 cm (92 7/8-3 1/2 in.) Width of collar band: 2.6 cm (1 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Orientals
Reference Number: 1935.368
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Art Institute of Chicago,”Exhibition of Chinese Textiles,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 29, vol. 2 (Feb. 1935): 23 (detail ill.).
John E. Vollmer, et al., “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): 33-5, 60, 91. cat. 25, plate XIV (ill).

Art Institute of Chicago, Chinese Textiles, Brocades, Embroideries and Tapestry Weavings, Jan. 25-May 15, 1935.
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.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Asian art, Gallery 108, Mar. 24-July 14, 2005.

Mrs. Guy Potter Benton, New York, by Dec. 13, 1934 [incoming receipt R5670, Dec. 13, 1934; copy in curatorial object file; on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago as loan number 714.34]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1935.

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