COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MMA_.06.941
AMICA Library Year:
2000
Object Type:
Costume and Jewelry
Creator Nationality:
European; French
Creator Name-CRT:
French, made Nanjing, China
Title:
Mantle of a Court Page
Title Type:
Object name
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
ca. 1551- 1589
Creation Start Date:
1551
Creation End Date:
1589
Materials and Techniques:
silk, gilt thread
Classification Term:
Main dress-Menswear
Creation Place:
Nanjing, China
Dimensions:
Diam. 32 in. (81.3 cm)
AMICA Contributor:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location:
New York, New York, USA
ID Number:
06.941
Credit Line:
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Context:
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.
Related Image Identifier Link:
MMA_.ci06.941.R.tif
