Woman's Semiformal Domestic Magua (Short Coat)

Provenance

Mrs. Clayton W. Miller, Chicago, by May 1946 [incoming receipt R8646, May 9, 1946, on loan to the AIC as 32.1946; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946..

Woman's Semiformal Domestic Magua (Short Coat)

Manchu

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1880–1900

Accession Number

55845

Medium

Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin damask weave; facings: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and self-patterning ground wefts; ribbons: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, one with extended ground weft loop fringe, silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, and silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and self-patterning ground wefts; sleeve facings: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in flat, knot, and Pekinese stitches; sleeve bands: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching; trim and closures: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; lined with silk, warp-float faced 3:1 'Z' twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave

Dimensions

62.2 × 132 cm (24 1/2 × 52 in.); Repeat: 10.6 × 19.2 cm (4 1/8 × 7 1/2 in.)

Classification

costume

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Clayton W. Miller