About this artwork
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Title
- Sutra Cover
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Origin
- China
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Date
- Made 1590–1599
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Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, gauze weave with supplementary patterning wefts; label: silk, plain weave; painted with ink, glued over paper
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Dimensions
- 12.2 × 35 cm (4 3/4 × 13 3/4 in.) Weft repeat: 1.9–12.2 cm (4 5/8–3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and The Walter E. Heller Foundation Endowment
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Reference Number
- 2001.164.67
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