Woman's Long Pao (Formal Domestic Robe)

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1890-1910

Manchu
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Manchu
Title: Woman's Long Pao (Formal Domestic 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 1890–1910
Medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, slit tapestry weave; edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, 2:1 twill oblique interlaced tape and bands of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, supplementary facing wefts
Dimensions: 141 × 191.1 cm (55 1/2 × 75 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. B. Botsford Young
Reference Number: 1955.784

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): 73, cat. 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. 59.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Asian art, Gallery 108, Apr. 22-July 27, 2004.

Mrs. B. Botsford Young (1928-2017; born Ann Treadway, also Ann Young), Lake Forest, IL, by 1955 [incoming receipt RX1637, July 22, 1955; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

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