Woman's Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe)

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1790-1820

Manchu
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Manchu
Title: Woman'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; 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
Dimensions: 147.4 × 217.2 cm (58 × 85 1/2 in.); Shoulder to hem: H.: 60.5 cm (23 3/4 in.); Sleeve: H.: 25.7 cm (10 1/8 in.); At hem: W.: 116 cm (45 3/4 in.); Sleeve panel: W.: 40.4 cm (15 7/8 in.); Tapestry at collar: W.: 8.1 cm (6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Frederick S. Colburn
Reference Number: 1952.1018
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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): 60, cat. 26 (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. 26.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Asian Art, Gallery 108, Aug. 7, 2003-Jan. 13, 2004.

Frederick Standish Colburn (1878–1957), Evanston, IL, by Jan. 7, 1952 [incoming receipt RX507, Jan. 7, 1952; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952

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