id: 148522 accession number: 1976.1087 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.1087 updated: 2020-11-04 21:17:20.205000 Silk Panel with Dragon and Cloud Motif, c. 1700s-1800s. China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Jiangnan Imperial Factory. Silk and metal thread: Jacquard weave; overall: 373.4 x 71.1 cm (147 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of C. L. Burton 1976.1087 title: Silk Panel with Dragon and Cloud Motif title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1700s-1800s creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Gift of C. L. Burton copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Jiangnan Imperial Factory technique: Silk and metal thread: Jacquard weave department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 373.4 x 71.1 cm (147 x 28 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Splendor of Chinese Silk – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2018-02-05T05:00:00 The Splendor of Chinese Silk – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 5-August 12, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This panel of silk produced in one of the imperial factories is the end part of a bolt of silk, some of which were shipped to Beijing as tax payments. The inscription woven into the lower body of the fabric reads Jiangnan Silk Factory under Superintendent Wen Feng(?). An additional signature by the weaver is woven into the left corner.

Since the Southern Song dynasty in the 1100s, the production of silk for imperial use was increasingly concentrated in the Lower Yangzi Delta, also called Jiangnan. By the Ming and Qing dynasties the main official imperial workshops were situated in the region’s cities of Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Spee, Clarissa von. "From the SIlk Road to the Imperial Court: Chinese Textiles in the Cleveland Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 48, no. 3(May-June 2018): 50-56. page number: Reproduced: p. 54, fig. 6 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.1087/1976.1087_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.1087/1976.1087_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.1087/1976.1087_full.tif