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Chair cover with pomegranates, lotus, peonies, and birds
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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18th century (1701 - 1800)
Qing Dynasty (1645 - 1911)
- Material and technique
- silk, tapestry woven (kesi) with gold-wrapped thread and coloured silk, and painted; silk border, satin woven, and dyed red; cotton lining
- Dimensions
- 170 x 52 cm (height x width)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,processed material › metal › gold,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Miss Edna Bahr, in memory of A. W. Bahr, 1965.
- Accession no.
- EA1965.105
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Silk. A Cultural History (London: The British Museum Press, 2004), pp. 185 & 190, illus. p. 191 figs 125 & 126
Location
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- currently in research collection
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