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Coat

Coat

late 1880s
(1644–1911)
Silk, gold thread: embroidery
Overall: 94 x 177.8 cm (37 x 70 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1357
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This was likely made for a wife of a wealthy merchant, whose business would rely on ships like the embroidered ones on the coat.
  • ?–1916
    Mr. Jeptha Homer Wade II [1857–1926] and Mrs. Ellen Garretson Wade [1859–1917], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1916–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Silberstein, Rachel. "Eight Scenes of Suzhou: Landscape Embroidery, Urban Courtesans, and Nineteenth-Century Chinese Women’s Fashions." Late Imperial China, Volume 36, Number 1, June 2015, pp. 1-52. 1-52
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