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Fragment of silk cloth
Chinese
Ming dynasty
16th–17th century
Object Place: China
Medium/Technique
Silk satin with silk and gilt paper strip discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts tied down with supplementary warps in twill-weave
Dimensions
27.5 x 37 cm (10 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number07.850
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CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionFragment of silk cloth with design of "the three rams and the three friends" in gilt paper strip discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts on a blue-green silk satin ground.
ProvenanceDenman Waldo Ross Collection; gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA in 1907