Child's Short Jacket
Artist:
Unknown
Place made:China
General region:Asia
Culture: Chinese
Period: Qing dynasty
Dynasty: Qing
Date: late- 19th-early- 20th century
Medium: Silk
Dimensions:
23 × 39 3/4 in. (58.4 × 101 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Bessie Timon
Object number: 68.40.290
Label Text
Jacket for a ChildJacket Child
China
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), late 19th century
Silk satin, silk floss embroidery, and
gold-wrapped thread
Gift of Bessie Timon
68.40.290
Like dragon robes for adults, this small jacket is lavishly decorated with gold five-claw dragons and phoenixes. Other images with auspicious meanings in Chinese culture—bats, flowering plants, and fruits—are also embroidered on the jacket. This dress was likely for a boy of a noble family to wear on a formal occasion. During the Qing dynasty, children’s formal garments were treated like miniature replicas of those for adults, however, embroidered images, particularly animals, were rendered with humor to make the garments suitable for children.
China
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), late 19th century
Silk satin, silk floss embroidery, and
gold-wrapped thread
Gift of Bessie Timon
68.40.290
Like dragon robes for adults, this small jacket is lavishly decorated with gold five-claw dragons and phoenixes. Other images with auspicious meanings in Chinese culture—bats, flowering plants, and fruits—are also embroidered on the jacket. This dress was likely for a boy of a noble family to wear on a formal occasion. During the Qing dynasty, children’s formal garments were treated like miniature replicas of those for adults, however, embroidered images, particularly animals, were rendered with humor to make the garments suitable for children.
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