id:			156749
accession number:	1992.349
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.349
updated:		2023-08-26 11:09:38.429000

Pair of Boots, 1000 – 1125. China, Northern, Liao dynasty (907-1125). Compound twill, silk; tapestry, silk and gold; tabby, silk; gauze, silk; silk batting; leather; overall: 34.9 x 25 cm (13 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1992.349

title:				Pair of Boots
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creation date:			1000 – 1125
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1125
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	China, Northern, Liao dynasty (907-1125)
technique:	compound twill, silk; tapestry, silk and gold; tabby, silk; gauze, silk; silk batting; leather
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Garment
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measurements: Overall: 34.9 x 25 cm (13 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
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The fabric and tailoring of garments have always defined social status. For these boots, different outer fabrics were used: a patterned silk for the leg portion, and tapestry (<em>kesi</em>) for the foot. Since both were considered luxury fabrics, they were pieced together from remnants too precious to discard. Consequently, the silk pattern was not used in relation to the form of the boot, as seen in some other imperial boots. By contrast, these boots would have been made for a court official, not a member of the imperial family. The patterned silk was woven with geese flanking a vase of flowers on a stand and surrounded by cloud scrolls. The Chinese motif of flowers arranged in a vase was adopted by the Liao during the 11th century and indicates an 11th- or early 12th-century date for the boots.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Watt, James C. Y, Anne E Wardwell, Anne E Wardwell, Morris Rossabi, Cleveland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Morris Rossabi, Cleveland Museum of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). <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: P. 46-48, no. 10
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	Klingbiel, Karen, "Conserving the Past", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 37 no. 08, October 1997
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6-7
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1997-08/page/6

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