Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with patterning wefts; wrapped over cardboard; applied label of paper, with inscribed title painted and/or printed with ink
- Dimensions
- 34 × 11.7 cm (13 3/8 × 4 5/8 in.); Repeat: 25 × 11 cm (9 7/8 × 4 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)mingEast AsianChinese (culture or style)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingasian