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Unknown Artist

Jacquard Fabric with Dragon and Phoenix Grid Design

1866

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Unknown Artist

Jacquard Fabric with Dragon and Phoenix Grid Design

1866

Physical Qualities Silk, 180-3/4 x 30 in.
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Slack, Gibson Island, Maryland
Object Number 2002.101
The length of jacquard-woven silk consists of a background divided into squares approx. 2 inches square; at the intersection of the squares are medallions with floral, dragon, wan, and phoenix motifs. Colors used are dark and light blue, purple, green brown, and pink. Both selvages are present; top and bottom edges are cut. One end (pattern makes fabric orientation impossible to determine) appears to be the end or beginning of bolt, since it has no pattern woven. This end also has a glued paper tag with a Chinese character stamp in red ink and hand-written characters in black ink.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Slack, Gibson Island, Maryland, by inheritance; collected in the early 1920s by Dr. and Mrs. Henry Slack when they lived in China

Inscribed: Small paper tag glued to one end of fabric has Chinese character stamp in red ink and hand-written characters in black ink.

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