Sutra Cover

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Sutra Cover

Place

China (Object made in)

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Made 1590–1599

Medium

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:4 satin interlacings; label: silk, plain weave; painted in ink; glued over paper

Dimensions

34.6 × 12 cm (13 5/8 × 4 3/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 18.1 cm (7 in.)

Credit Line

Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and The Walter E. Heller Foundation Endowment

Reference Number

2001.164.85

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