Cleveland Museum of Art
Brocade with Soaring Phoenixes among Clouds
- Date
- 1100s–1200s
- Medium
- Silk and gold thread; tabby, brocaded
- Culture
- China, Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 157440
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The gold-brocaded designs of Jin brocades, such as this example with graceful phoenixes soaring into clouds, are typically asymmetrical. Moreover, they have no frame or border, and appear to have been cut out of larger decorative images. Textiles like this, which were probably exported from China to Iran, helped transmit the phoenix motif into Ilkhanid decorative arts.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1994: (Dr. Friedrich Spuhler, Berlin, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1994–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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