Man's Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe)
Manchu
1840–1870
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leafed-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave; embroidered in padded satin and stem stitches; painted; edged with silk and gold-leaf-paper-strip-wrapped silk in warp-float faced satin weave with weft-float faced twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; metal buttons
- Dimensions
- 140.9 × 174.3 cm (55 1/2 × 68 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
qingsilk (fiber)needlework (visual works)costumeTextilepaper (fiber product)weaving
