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A Child’s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants

A Child’s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants

700s
silk; weft-faced compound twill, samit
Overall: 48 x 82.5 cm (18 7/8 x 32 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1996.2
Location: not on view

Description

This luxurious silk coat for a young prince displays ducks in pearl roundels alternating with cross-shaped lotus blossoms woven in five radiant colors of silk. The ducks are adorned with imperial motifs adopted from the previous Sasanian dynasty in Iran including pearl collars, flying ribbons, and a jeweled necklace in their beaks. This silk was woven in Iran or Sogdiana; however, it is lined with Chinese silk damask and has a pair of pants also made with Chinese silk damask, both decorated in an 8th-century style of the Tang Dynasty.
  • ?-1996
    (Sara Tremayne, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1996-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Major Works,” March 18, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Wardwell, Anne E. "Clothes for a Prince", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 08, October 1996 Mentioned and reproduced: p. 4-5 archive.org
    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. Mentioned: cat. no. 5, pp. 34-37; Reproduced: p. 36
    Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. Reproduced: P. 65, fig. 2.27; 36, 41-42, 66-67, fig. 2.28; Mentioned: P. 65, 69
    Corty, Axelle. "Mysterieuses Soieries d'Asie Central." Connaissance des arts 745 (Feb. 2016): 84-89. Reproduced: pp. 84-85
    "Highlights from North American Collections." IDP News: Newsletter of the International Dunhuang Project, no. 49-50, Summer 2017, pp. 4-7. Reproduced: p. 7, fig. 5 (coat only)
    The Asian Art Newspaper. "The Splendor of Chinese Textiles: From the Silk Road to the Imperial Court." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 21, no. 6 (Summer 2018): 25. Reproduced: p. 25
  • When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art. 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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