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Altar cover
Chinese
Qing dynasty
late 19th century
Object Place: China
Medium/Technique
Cotton plain-weave embroidered with silk
Dimensions
307.5 x 176 cm (121 1/16 x 69 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number50.499
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CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionAltar cloth composed of two valances stitched together with design in main fields of lotus and leaf tendrils, butterflies and Eight Buddhist Symbols of good fortune surrounded by borders with repeating floral and Chinese coin motifs embroidered in polychrome silk on a white plain-weave cotton ground; lined with blue plain-weave silk.
ProvenanceThe Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection; Gift from Elizabeth Day McCormick to the MFA, March 13, 1950