Cleveland Museum of Art
Textile Ornament(?): Phoenix
- 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
- 121209
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This phoenix bird made of thin gold foil has tiny holes all along its edges, suggesting that it was sewn onto a textile.
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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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