id: 98891 accession number: 1918.560.1.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.560.1.b updated: 2025-03-27 11:17:27.570000 Ceremonial Uniform: Skirt, 1644–1911. China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Satin weave silk with gold metal thread embroidery; supplementary weft; black velvet; metal (brass?); lined in blue silk; overall: 106.1 x 127 cm (41 3/4 x 50 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund, 1918.560.1.b title: Ceremonial Uniform: Skirt title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1644–1911 creation date earliest: 1644 creation date latest: 1911 current location: creditline: General Income Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: satin weave silk with gold metal thread embroidery; supplementary weft; black velvet; metal (brass?); lined in blue silk department: Chinese Art collection: China - Qing Dynasty type: Arms and Armor find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 106.1 x 127 cm (41 3/4 x 50 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Korean Pottery, a Few Textiles, and Paintings opening date: 1921-08-31T00:00:00 Korean Pottery, a Few Textiles, and Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 31-October 3, 1921). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Acquired by Langdon Warner in Korea, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: late 1916–1918 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1918- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Fales, William E. S. "Chinese Armor." The Collector 3, no. 18 (1892). (In Trumble, Alfred. The Collector. New York City: Alfred Trumble, 1889.) page number: p. 285 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25601955 advertisement for Chinese works of art at the Kleykamp Galleries, New York, showing Chinese ceremonial armor being worn. The Antiquarian. New York: Antiquarian Publishing Co., Vol. IX, no. 3 (October 1927) page number: p. 55 url: Grancsay, Stephen V. "The George C. Stone Bequest: Chinese and Malayan Arms and Armor." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 32, no. 6 (1937). page number: pp. 143–148 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3255102 Bullock, Randolph. "Oriental Arms and Armor." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 5, no. 6 (1947). page number: pp. 169–171 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3258117 Nickel, Helmut. Warriors and Worthies; Arms and Armor Through the Ages. New York: Atheneum, 1969. page number: pp. 97–98 url: Dien, Albert E. "A Study of Early Chinese Armor." Artibus Asiae 43, no. 1/2 (1981). page number: pp. 5–66 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249826 Pang, Mae Anna. Dragon Emperor: Treasures from the Forbidden City. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. page number: pp. 54–65 url: Jacobsen, Robert D. Imperial Silks of the Chʻing Dynasty. Minneapolis, Minn: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1991. page number: figs. 20–22, pp. 341–349 url: Garrett, Valery M. Chinese Clothing: An Illustrated Guide. 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London: V & A Pub, 2010. page number: pp. 61–65 url: Bonhams & Butterfields. Fine Asian Works of Art. San Francisco: Bonhams & Butterfields, December 13, 2010. page number: p. 21, Lot no. 5024 url: Sotheby's, London. Fine Chinese ceramics and works of art. May 11, 2011 sale. page number: p. 190, Lot no. 250 url: Christie's South Kensington, Ltd. Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles. London: Christie's South Kensington, Ltd, November 9, 2012. page number: p. 23, Lot no. 1045 url: Moll-Murata, Christine, and Ulrich Theobald. "Military Employment in Qing Dynasty China." In Fighting for a Living: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000, edited by Zürcher Erik-Jan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013. page number: pp. 353–392 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wp6pg.15 Robinson, H. Russell. Oriental Armor. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2002. page number: pp. 126–166 url: Bonhams. Fine Chinese Works of Art. San Francisco: Bonhams, December 17, 2013. page number: pp. 124–125, Lot no. 8252 url: Li, Jian, Li He, Hou-mei Sung, and Ma Shengnan. Forbidden city: imperial treasures from the Palace Museum, Beijing. Richmond, VA: VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2014. page number: pp. 48–49, 54–55 url: Crick, Monique, ed. Chine Impériale: Splendeurs de La Dynastie Qing (1644-1911). Milan, Genève: 5 continents; Fondation Baur, museé des arts d’Extrême-Orient, 2014. page number: p. 68-71 url: Bonhams. Fine Chinese Works of Art. San Francisco: Bonhams, June 24, 2014. page number: pp. 92–93, Lot no. 8155 and 8157 url: Bonhams. Fine Chinese Works of Art. San Francisco: Bonhams, June 24, 2014. page number: pp. 94–95, Lot no. 8157 url: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. Fine Chinese ceramics and works of art. New York, September 14–15, 2017. page number: pp. 60–63, Lot no. 939 url: Feng, Linying 冯林英. Qing dai gong ting fu shi 清代宮廷服饰. 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Late Nineteenth Century Chinese Ceremonial Armor: Context, Conservation and Mounting for Display. MA thesis, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, 2020. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.560.1.b/1918.560.1.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.560.1.b/1918.560.1.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.560.1.b/1918.560.1.b_full.tif