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Untitled, cloth embroidered with peonies, orchids, butterflies, chyrsanthemums
early 20th c.20th century
67 in. x 28 in. (170.18 cm x 71.12 cm)
, Chinese
Object Type:
Textile
Creation Place:
Asia, China
Medium and Support:
silk, thread
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Percy T. Watson, class of 1903
Accession Number:
1997.650
Keywords
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20th Century,
21st Century,
butterflies,
Chinese*,
cloth*,
Contemporary*,
decorative arts*,
fleurons (motifs)*,
flowers (motifs),
Papilionoidea (superfamily)*,
sculpture (visual work)*,
silk (fiber)*,
silk (textile)*,
textiles*,
thread*,
three-dimensional*
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- butterflies
- Chinese - Describes works created by the people of the same name living in China.
- cloth - Generally, textile that is woven, felted, knit, pounded, or otherwise made into a flat piece. For textile in the form of continuous strands made from filaments of fiber by reeling, spinning, twisting, or throwing, see "yarn."
- Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
- decorative arts - Refers to works that are primarily utilitarian in form or function, but that have aesthetic value provided by the design, decoration, or embellishment. They may include ceramics, furniture, and other household or utilitarian objects. They are distinct from "fine arts," which were traditionally considered to require more extensive training and were restricted to the media of painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture.
- fleurons (motifs) - Small decorative flowerlike elements; a term used loosely in reference to architecture and furniture and more specifically in reference to printers' type ornaments.
- flowers (motifs)
- Papilionoidea (superfamily) - Members of a superfamily containing around 14,000 species of insects belonging to four families. The wings, bodies, and legs of butterflies, like those of moths, are covered with dustlike scales. Unlike moths, butterflies are active during the day and are usually brightly colored or strikingly patterned. Perhaps the most distinctive physical features of the butterfly are its club-tipped antennae and its habit of holding the wings vertically over the back when at rest.
- sculpture (visual work) - Works of art in which images and forms are produced in relief, in intaglio, or in the round. It refers especially to those objects that retain the quality of being tangible objects or groups of objects. It refers particularly to art works created by carving or engraving a hard material, by molding or casting a malleable material, or by assembling parts to create a three-dimensional object. It is typically used to refer to large or medium-sized objects made of stone, wood, bronze, or another metal. Small objects are typically referred to as "carvings." As works become more diffused in space or time, or less tangible, use specific terms, such as "mail art" or "environmental art."
- silk (fiber) - Fine continuous protein fiber consisting primarily of fibroin filaments, secreted by silk caterpillars.
- silk (textile) - Textile made from silk fiber, which is a fiber derived from the cocoon of the silkworm moth.
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textiles
- Refers collectively to items made of textile materials. For the general category of these materials, see
. - thread - Single filaments of fiber, groups of such filaments twisted tightly together, or filamentous lengths formed by spinning and twisting short fibers into a continuous strand.
- three-dimensional - Having, or appearing to have, the three dimensions of length, width, and height.