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Sleeveless garment
The collection record classifies this work as garment. It is dated 1800s. Recorded culture or place: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
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- Museum title
- Sleeveless garment
- Date
- 1800s
- Culture / origin
- China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Materials and technique
- Bamboo beads strung together in diamond and hexagon patterns; edges in plain weave cotton
- Dimensions
- Overall: 56.5 x 56.5 cm (22 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1915.410
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This loose-fitting bamboo vest is a summer undershirt, made of an estimated 3,490 fine bamboo tubes. The overall structure of the vest is held together with cotton thread. Such vests were worn under an outer garment to allow the air to circulate and protect the outer garment from soilage, especially in the hot and humid climate of southern China. Textual evidence indicates that officials during the 1500s in Jiangnan wore bamboo vests from Jiangsu province, one of the production centers.
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