About this artwork
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Culture
- Manchu
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Title
- Woman's 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 tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; painted details; edged with 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; trimmed with braid of gilt-metal-strip-wrapped linen, 1:1 oblique interlacing; sleeves: silk, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave; pleated; lined with silk, plain weave (new); metal buttons
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Dimensions
- 147.4 × 217.2 cm (58 × 85 1/2 in.) Shoulder to hem length: 60.5 cm (23 3/4 in.) Sleeve length: 25.7 cm (10 1/8 in.) Width at hem: 116 cm (45 3/4 in.) Width of sleeve panel: 40.4 cm (15 7/8 in.) Width of tapestry at collar: 8.0-8.8 cm (3 1/8-3 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Frederick S. Colburn
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Reference Number
- 1952.1018
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