Collection record · Dress & textiles
A Child’s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants
The collection record classifies this work as garment. It is dated 700s. Recorded culture or place: Iran or Central Asia, Sogdiana.
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- Museum title
- A Child’s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants
- Date
- 700s
- Culture / origin
- Iran or Central Asia, Sogdiana
- Materials and technique
- silk; weft-faced compound twill, samit
- Dimensions
- Overall: 48 x 82.5 cm (18 7/8 x 32 1/2 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1996.2
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This luxurious silk coat for a young prince displays ducks in pearl roundels alternating with cross-shaped lotus blossoms woven in five radiant colors of silk. The ducks are adorned with motifs adopted from the previous Sasanian dynasty in Iran including pearl collars, flying ribbons, and a jeweled necklace in their beaks. This silk was woven in Iran or Sogdiana; however, it is lined with Chinese silk damask and has a pair of pants also made with Chinese silk damask, both decorated in an 8th-century style of the Tang Dynasty.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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