Vestment (For a First-degree Taoist Priest)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Vestment (For a First-degree Taoist Priest)

Place

China (Object made in)

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Made 1825–1875

Medium

Silk, satin weaves; embroidered with silk, silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, laid work and couching; ties: silk, satin weave; lined with silk, twill damask

Dimensions

135.2 × 189.3 cm (53 1/4 × 74 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel M. Nickerson Fund

Reference Number

1947.514

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