Cape
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second half 16th century · silk, gilt thread · Costume Institute
This mantle, made with a sixteenth-century Ming Dynasty velvet, is purely European in form. The gold thread is typically Chinese in style: gilded paper wound on a core of orange silk.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- second half 16th century
- Medium
- silk, gilt thread
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
