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Cape

second half 16th century
Not on view
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Cape
  • Date: second half 16th century
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: silk, gilt thread
  • Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
  • Object Number: 06.941
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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