Vestment (For a First-degree Taoist Priest)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1793

Zheng Wuda? (Hui- chang, active c. 1793)
Han-Chinese
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Han-Chinese
Title: Vestment (For a First-degree Taoist Priest)
Place: China (Object made in)
Date: Made 1793
Medium: Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk, peacock-feather-wrapped silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper in surface satin stitches; laid work and couching; appliquéd with forms of silk, plain weaves between two layers of paper, some with gold- and silver-leaf-over-lacquered paper, and embroidered with silk in chain and knot stitches, needle looping with laid thread and darned bars, and silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, laid work and couching; edged with cotton, plain weave; lined with ramie, plain weave; metal button
Inscriptions: Inscription translation (on front border, lower left): Purchased by Ji Benli [for use at the] Wuhang miao [Taoist temple/shrine] in the quichao year of the Qianlong [emperor] [i.e., 1793]; (on front border, lower right): Purchased by Ji Benli [for use at] the Xuanzhen Guan [Taoist monastery] on an auspicious day of the peaches [third] month of quichao year of the Qianlong [emperor] [i.e., 1793]. Made by Zhang Wenda of Haichan.
Dimensions: 139.6 × 156.2 cm (55 × 61 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Alexander F. Stevenson through the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1907.322
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Jack Sewell, Ming-Ch‘ing Dynasties, a.d. 1368-1644, a.d. 1644-1912, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1964).
John E. Vollmer, “Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago,” published in conjunction with the exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, no. 2 (2000): 7, 41-3, 69, 84, cat. 47, plate XXV (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Ming Ch’ing: The Arts of China 14th–20th Century, Aug. 7–Oct. 11, 1964, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 13, 2000–Jan. 2, 2001, cat. 47.

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