Buddhist Monk's Cape (Incomplete)

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Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1650/1700

China

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Department: Textiles

Title: Buddhist Monk's Cape (Incomplete)
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 1650–1700
Medium: Silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, and peacock feathers, slit tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; painted details; edged with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; top facing edged with silk, plain weave; lined with silk, plain weave
Dimensions: 128.3 × 225.8 cm (50 1/2 × 89 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. William J. Calhoun
Reference Number: 1937.816
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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): 66, 87, cat. 43 (ill.).
Elinor Pearlstein, “Color, Life, and Moment: Early Chicago Collectors of Chinese Textiles,” in “Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago,” special edition, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, no. 2 (2000): 9, fig. 2; 87, 109, note 26.

Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Chinese Curios, Jan 21-Feb. 3, 1916, no cat.
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.

Mrs. William Calhoun (1865-1950; born Lucy Monroe; also Lucy Monroe Calhoun), Chicago, by Jan. 21, 1916 [on loan to the Art Institue of Chicago from Jan. 21 to Feb. 3, 1916, Pearlstein 2000; on loan to Art Institute of Chicago from Jan 29, 1927, receipt R3190; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

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