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Hanging
Chinese
Qing dynasty
1873
Object Place: China
Medium/Technique
Silk; satin-weave ground with silk and gold metallic thread embroidery
Dimensions
Overall: 243.8 x 188 cm (96 x 74 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.128
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionHanging with design of figures of immortals, phoenix, bats, cranes and flowers in blue, green, yellow, red, pink, black and white silk embroidery and gold metallic thread couching on a red silk satin ground.
An inscription in couched gold metallic thread at the center bottom reads: In the 4th year of Tung Chih the grateful pupil Si Tsu Yeung and his wife Siang with their son Kow Chien (Kow Chow, Nen Tai two other children) present this with respects
An inscription in couched gold metallic thread at the center bottom reads: In the 4th year of Tung Chih the grateful pupil Si Tsu Yeung and his wife Siang with their son Kow Chien (Kow Chow, Nen Tai two other children) present this with respects
InscriptionsInscription translated by Mr. Okakura Kakuzo
ProvenanceDenman Waldo Ross Collection; gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA on March 2, 1911