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Length of furnishing fabric from Yuanmingyuan
Length of furnishing fabric from Yuanmingyuan

Length of furnishing fabric from Yuanmingyuan

1750–75
Object PlaceChina
Medium/TechniqueSilk voided velvet; cut and uncut pine with satin-weave ground
Dimensions170 x 64 cm (66 15/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group
Accession number41.524
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceAbout 1750-1775, probably made for the Yuanming Yuan ("Old Summer Palace"), Beijing [see note]. 1941, sold by Yamanaka and Company, New York, to the MFA for $115. (Accession Date: June 5, 1941)

NOTE: A comparative fabric is held by the Palace Museum, Beijing; see Empresses and Their Court Arts in the Forbidden City (Sezon Museum of Art, 1997), cat. no. 43.