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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.
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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
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