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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 43 (2008)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 43

"The Giraffe as the Mythical Qilin in Chinese Art: A Painting and a Rank Badge in the Metropolitan Museum"

Watt, James C. Y.
2008
6 pages
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James Watt

Met Art in Publication

Giraffe with Two Keepers, Unidentified artist, Ink and color on silk, China
Unidentified artist
Textile with Swan Hunt, Plain-weave silk brocaded with gold-leaf wrapped leather strips, China
12th–13th century
Rank Badge with Qilin, Silk embroidery on silk gauze, China
16th–early 17th century

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