The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Silk Panel with Dragon and Cloud Motif
c. 1700s-1800s
Overall: 373.4 x 71.1 cm (147 x 28 in.)
Gift of C. L. Burton 1976.1087
Location: not on view
Description
This panel of silk produced in one of the imperial factories is the end part of a bolt of silk, some of which were shipped to Beijing as tax payments. The inscription woven into the lower body of the fabric reads Jiangnan Silk Factory under Superintendent Wen Feng(?). An additional signature by the weaver is woven into the left corner.Since the Southern Song dynasty in the 1100s, the production of silk for imperial use was increasingly concentrated in the Lower Yangzi Delta, also called Jiangnan. By the Ming and Qing dynasties the main official imperial workshops were situated in the region’s cities of Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing.
- ?-1976Mr. Cecil L. Burton [1914-1987] and Mrs. Bettie Neff Burton [1913-2002], Orange Village, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1976-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Spee, Clarissa von. "From the SIlk Road to the Imperial Court: Chinese Textiles in the Cleveland Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 48, no. 3 (May-June 2018): 50-56. Reproduced: p. 54, fig. 6
- The Splendor of Chinese Silk – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 5-August 12, 2018).
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