Embroidery from a Cloud Collar: Ocean, Rocks, and Peonies
1300s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Embroidery from a Cloud Collar: Ocean, Rocks, and Peonies, 1300s. China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) - early Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Silk and silver thread, silvered paper; needleloop embroidery; overall: 63.8 x 60 cm (25 1/8 x 23 5/8 in.); mounted: 69.8 x 67.3 cm (27 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1993.10 Judging from the border on the lower portion, this fragment is most of one lobe of a cloud-collar medallion. Each of the three other original sections would have been embroidered with the same design.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Formatted Medium
- silk and silver thread, silvered paper; needleloop embroidery
- Medium
- silk, silver, thread, silvered, paper, needleloop, embroidery
- Dimensions
- Overall: 63.8 x 60 cm (25 1/8 x 23 5/8 in.); Mounted: 69.8 x 67.3 cm (27 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1993.10
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art, Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation), <em>Gallery 239 textile rotation</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 9, 2015-March 10, 2016).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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