The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Woman’s Mantle (Chyrpy)
late 1800s–early 1900s
Overall: 119.4 x 75 cm (47 x 29 1/2 in.)
Gift of E.B. and Joan C. Long 2010.192
Location: not on view
Description
Traditional costumes in central Asia have distinctive characteristics that indicate ethnicity, age, and class. One of the oldest examples is a woman’s coat with false sleeves attached on the back and worn over the head. This silk coat in yellow, the color worn by middle-aged women, is elaborately decorated with popular stylized tulips embroidered in chain stitch. Worn consistently by a newlywed, the coat was later only used on special occasions. Although women made and embroidered garments at home, this expensive luxury mantle was professionally made and sold in the marketplace.- ?-2010Dr. E.B. and Mrs. Joan C. Long, Bath, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2010-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Gluck, Jay, and Sumi Hiramoto Gluck. A Survey of Persian Handicraft: A Pictorial Introduction to the Contemporary Folk Arts and Art Crafts of Modern Iran. Tehran: Published under the auspices of the Bank Melli Iran [by] Survey of Persian Art, 1977. p. 250Gervers, V. “Construction of Türkmen Coats.” Textile History 14, no. 1 (1983). pp. 3–27 doi.orgAmstey, Marvin S., Frederica Amstey, and George W. O'Bannon. Vanishing Jewels: Central Asian Tribal Weavings : a Catalog of an Exhibition by the Rochester Museum & Science Center, September 14, 1990 to March 17, 1991 from the Collection of Marvin and Frederica Amstey. Rochester, N.Y.: The Center, 1990. p. 73
- Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 18, 2014-December 14, 2015).
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