Sutra Cover with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Medium

Silk kesi tapestry; dyed polychrome silk yarns and gold-wrapped yarns in weft-faced tabby-weave fabric

Dimensions

Overall: 5 3/4 × 20 5/8 in. (14.6 × 52.4 cm)

Classification

Textiles-Woven

Culture & Period

China · Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Barbara and William Karatz Gift, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2012

Accession Number

2012.559

Rights

Public Domain

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