Theatrical jacket for a court lady
This jacket features delicate embroidered lotuses on green satin. Known as a lotus-picker jacket (cailianyi), this type of garment would have been worn by a lady while she picked lotuses. On the lining of this example, several ink stamps indicate it was used at the Jingshan, a man-made hill north of the Forbidden City where actors from south China who performed in the imperial theater lived.
Artwork Details
- 清 綠緞彩繡採蓮衣
- Title: Theatrical jacket for a court lady
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: 18th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Silk thread embroidery on silk satin
- Dimensions: Overall: 30 1/2 x 50 3/4 in. (77.5 x 128.9 cm)
- Classification: Costumes-Embroidered
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930
- Object Number: 30.76.36
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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China
7th–8th century
China
first half 18th century
Japan
second half of the 17th century
Wang Hui
datable to 1698
Japan
ca. 1670s
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