Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Circular medallion with a frame and a pictorial center. The frame contains a landscape with cloud motifs embroidered in polychrome silks on a green ground. In the center, a white rabbit is standing in front of small building with trees, stirring a blue vessel with a long spoon. The rabbit beating the elixir of life is often shown on the robe of a T'aoist priest.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Marian Hague
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1971-50-149
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Object Name
- Medallion
- Type
- Medallion
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metal threads Technique: embroidered in pattern darning, satin and couching stitches on gauze-weave foundation
- Dimensions
- diam.: 30.5 cm (12 in.)
- made in
- China
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1971-50-149
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c18e657d-2444-41bd-afd0-64661b2d9517
