id:			157565
accession number:	1994.96
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.96
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:20.136000

Embroidery with Birds, 700s-800s. China, Tang dynasty (618-906). Embroidery, silk thread on silk ground; overall: 157.5 x 25.7 cm (62 x 10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1994.96

title:				Embroidery with Birds
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creation date:			700s-800s
creation date earliest:		700
creation date latest:		899
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	China, Tang dynasty (618-906)
technique:	embroidery, silk thread on silk ground
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Embroidery
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measurements: Overall: 157.5 x 25.7 cm (62 x 10 1/8 in.)
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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
	<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 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998).

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles. 1997.
	page number: 	pp. 168-169, color reproduction, p. 168-9, detail reproduction, p. 169
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	"A Meeting of Traditions." <em>HALI</em> 95 (November 1997): 102-104
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 102
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	Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 44-45
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