Cleveland Museum of Art
Textile Ornaments(?): Pair of Phoenixes
- Date
- c. 700s
- Medium
- beaten gold with chased detail
- Culture
- China, Tang dynasty (618-907)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 121207
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
These two phoenix birds made of thin gold foil have tiny holes all along their edges, suggesting that they were sewn on textiles.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1942: (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1942–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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