id:			155786
accession number:	1991.113
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.113
updated:		2025-07-12 11:02:23.281000

Brocade with Hares, 1200s–mid-1300s. Northern China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Silk: tabby, brocaded; gold thread; overall: 26 x 42.8 cm (10 1/4 x 16 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Lisbet Holmes, 1991.113

title:				Brocade with Hares
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creation date:			1200s–mid-1300s
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1350
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creditline:			Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Lisbet Holmes
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culture:	Northern China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
technique:	Silk: tabby, brocaded; gold thread
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 26 x 42.8 cm (10 1/4 x 16 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary
	opening date:   1992-10-27T05:00:00
	<i>Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993).

	title:		When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art
	opening date:   1997-10-19T00:00:00
	<i>When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Lisbet Holmes Textiles, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1991
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1991–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 77
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388

	Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. <em>When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 34, pp. 107 and 124-125
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