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Teal Gauze Fabric with Longevity and Happiness Symbols

1879

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Unknown Artist

Teal Gauze Fabric with Longevity and Happiness Symbols

1879

Physical Qualities Silk, 158 × 30 3/4 in. (401.3 × 78.1 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Slack, Gibson Island, Maryland
Object Number 2002.105
A length of teal or blue-green silk gauze with a woven pattern of longevity medallion and bats (happiness). Both selvages are present; top and bottom edges are cut.
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

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