id: 156897 accession number: 1993.10 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.10 updated: 2023-04-05 11:07:29.698000 Embroidery from a Cloud Collar: Ocean, Rocks, and Peonies, 1300s. China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) - early Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Silk and silver thread, silvered paper; needleloop embroidery; overall: 63.8 x 60 cm (25 1/8 x 23 5/8 in.); mounted: 69.8 x 67.3 cm (27 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1993.10 title: Embroidery from a Cloud Collar: Ocean, Rocks, and Peonies title in original language: 云肩刺繡：海、石，牡丹 series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1399 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) - early Ming dynasty (1368-1644) technique: silk and silver thread, silvered paper; needleloop embroidery department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Embroidery find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 63.8 x 60 cm (25 1/8 x 23 5/8 in.); Mounted: 69.8 x 67.3 cm (27 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art opening date: 1997-10-19T00:00:00 When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998). title: Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation) opening date: 2020-11-06T05:00:00 Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2020-June 6, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Gallery 239 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 9, 2015-March 10, 2016). --- PROVENANCE (Lisbet Holmes Textiles, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1993 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1993– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Judging from the border on the lower portion, this fragment is most of one lobe of a cloud-collar medallion. Each of the three other original sections would have been embroidered with the same design. digital description: wall description: Against a deep blue satin ground, a peony tree emerges from an undulating sea. This embroidery was made using the needle looping technique, in which rows of detached loops are worked over silvered paper, attaching the ground only along the contours of the design. The design is filled with auspicious symbols, including the peony symbolizing wealth and honor, and the rock (shoushi 壽石) symbolizing longevity. There are small Buddhist symbols among the flowers, including the wheel of the law, a pair of conch shells representing the sounds of the Buddha’s teachings, and a swastika, an auspicious symbol signifying good fortune introduced into China from India with Buddhism. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143–218. page number: Reproduced: p. 214; Mentioned: p. 167 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457 Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1997. page number: Reproduced: pp. 186–187, cat. no. 55 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/62400 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.10/1993.10_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.10/1993.10_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.10/1993.10_full.tif