Manchu Man's Informal Domestic Robe
China, late nineteenth century
Blue silk velours ciselé (cut velvet) woven to shape with large dragon and floral roundels. The three spears that rise from the vase of flowers mean "May I rise in rank." The textile is especially interesting because it is patterned entirely by cut and uncut loops of the velvet pile.
Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.001.0813

Included in the Exhibition Mood Indigo Broadbent Gallery, September 27, 2007, to August 31, 2008 Dr. Anne Bissonnette, Curator

It has received support through an
Ohio Arts Council Sustainability Grant.