Title

Emperor's Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe), China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 1790/1820. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Emperor's Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe), China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 1790/1820.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21B28_153

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

22,6Mb (1,4Mb) / 10,0in x 8,8in / 3000 x 2631 (300dpi)

Keywords

water waves people arts country metal pattern wave China art Chinese threads costume clothes color design decoration decorative weaving royal robes robe dress gold paper dragon dragons location century textiles gallery fabric thread clothing royalty silk textile dynasty mythology full length woven qing dynasty full-length haberdashery art gallery Colour Patterned mythical creature gold leaf 18th century Eighteenth Century Manchu court dress mythical beast object Unknown Art Institute of Chicago Quing Dynasty art centre mythical creatures Heritage Art gold thread metallic thread mythical beasts mythological creature Textiles Art Institute Chicago painted details Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk slit tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts metal buttons embroidered with silk in satin and stem stitches lined with silk satin damask weave sleeves: bands of silk plain weave and of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk plain weave edging and closures: silk cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts sleeves lined with cotton plain weave