{"data": {"id": 163632, "accession_number": "2005.135", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Woman's Bridal Dress: Dragon Jacket, Pleated Skirt, Tabard, 1800s. China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Silk, gilt-metal thread; embroidery; overall: 104.2 x 153 cm (41 x 60 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Elizabeth Wade Sedgwick, 2005.135", "current_location": null, "title": "Woman's Bridal Dress: Dragon Jacket, Pleated Skirt, Tabard", "creation_date": "1800s", "creation_date_earliest": 1800, "creation_date_latest": 1899, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)"], "technique": "Silk, gilt-metal thread; embroidery", "support_materials": [], "department": "Textiles", "collection": "Textiles", "type": "Garment", "measurements": "Overall: 104.2 x 153 cm (41 x 60 1/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 1.042, "height_inch": 41, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 1.53, "width_inch": 60, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Elizabeth Wade Sedgwick [1913\u20132013], Lexington, MA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20132005", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2005\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This three-piece bridal dress includes a dragon jacket, a pleated skirt, and a tabard, a short loose-fitting sleeveless vest. The ensemble reveals the high rank of her husband even though it did not fall under the scope of the Qing Dynasty sumptuary laws. <br><br>The woman's bridal trousseau contains a short red coat with side-fastening and wide sleeves. It is decorated with ten dragons and other cosmological motifs commonly found on court dress. The presence of ten dragons indicates that the wife's husband was a high-ranking official. <br><br>The dragon jacket was worn over a pleated turquoise skirt, with six embroidered panels which feature dragons in the front and back.<br><br>A three-quarter-length sleeveless tabard completes the outfit, with a front closure, open sides secured by cloth bands, and a colorful tasseled fringe around the hem. Dragons, water, and clouds are embroidered on the silk ground. In addition, a rank badge applied on the front and back shows that the bride married a man of high official rank.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79990000"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2005.135-woman-s-bridal-dress"]}, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.135", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.135/2005.135_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "618", "filesize": "220180", "filename": "2005.135_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.135/2005.135_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2336", "filesize": "2461402", "filename": "2005.135_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.135/2005.135_full.tif", "width": "5000", "height": "3435", "filesize": "51552100", "filename": "2005.135_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of Elizabeth Wade Sedgwick", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 163632, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2005-06-06T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1800, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1800s", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "cover", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-08-03 14:24:18.520000"}}