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Cope
The collection record classifies this work as garment. It is dated 1500s. Recorded culture or place: China, Macao.
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- Museum title
- Cope
- Date
- 1500s
- Culture / origin
- China, Macao
- Materials and technique
- Silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 124.5 x 276.9 cm (49 x 109 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1950.6
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Silk fabric woven in China with European motifs was transported by European traders by the early 16th century. This popular pattern features a crowned double-headed eagle grasping arrows in its claws above a vase emitting blossoming vines. The eagle motif was derived from the Habsburg coat of arms, rulers of Spain and Austria during the 1500s and 1600s. Vertical borders with Chinese flora occur near the selvages of the five silk lengths forming the cope. The gilt-metal braided and fringed hood and broad orphrey band, or ornamental border, along the front edges feature fashionable small-scale floral sprigs.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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