| Object Number | C473 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | China |
| Period | Qing Dynasty (uncertain) | Ming Dynasty (uncertain) |
| Date Made | 17th Century |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk | Metallic Thread |
| Technique | Kesi |
| Iconography | Dragon | Crane | Crest | Shou |
| Description | Chair cover in bright colors. The textile is surrounded by a border of interlocking geometric scrolls with stylized dragonheads, in yellow on a blue ground on all four sides. Designed as a chair cover, the textile shows four vertically stacked sections of decoration. Each section was intended to cover a different part of a chair. An inverted flying crane among polychrome clouds is positioned at the top of the textile would have been draped over the back of the chair. Below, a four-clawed dragon with a stylized shou character would have been positioned on the chair’s back splats. Below the dragon is a four-pointed foliated medallion with two stylized dragon-like motifs inside against a blue field which would have ornamented the chair seat. The dancing crane above polychrome mountains would have hung off the front of the chair seat. C472 and C473 are a pair. |
| Length | 156 cm |
| Width | 53 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from W. G. Moore, 1926 |
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