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The fabric and tailoring of garments have always defined social status. For these boots, different outer fabrics were used: a patterned silk for the leg portion, and tapestry (<em>kesi</em>) for the foot. Since both were considered luxury fabrics, they were pieced together from remnants too precious to discard. Consequently, the silk pattern was not used in relation to the form of the boot. By contrast, these boots would have been made for a court official, not a member of the imperial family. The patterned silk was woven with geese flanking a vase of flowers on a stand and surrounded by cloud scrolls. The Chinese motif of flowers arranged in a vase was adopted by the Liao during the 11th century and indicates an 11th- or early 12th-century date for the boots.
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156751
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Pair of Boots
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156751
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Pair of Boots
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The fabric and tailoring of garments have always defined social status. For these boots, different outer fabrics were used: a patterned silk for the leg portion, and tapestry (<em>kesi</em>) for the foot. Since both were considered luxury fabrics, they were pieced together from remnants too precious to discard. Consequently, the silk pattern was not used in relation to the form of the boot. By contrast, these boots would have been made for a court official, not a member of the imperial family. The patterned silk was woven with geese flanking a vase of flowers on a stand and surrounded by cloud scrolls. The Chinese motif of flowers arranged in a vase was adopted by the Liao during the 11th century and indicates an 11th- or early 12th-century date for the boots.
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1000–1125
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en
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Q79946587
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Overall: 32.8 x 25 cm (12 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
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China, Northern, Liao dynasty (907-1125)
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1992.349.2
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Silk: compound twill; silk and gold: tapestry; silk: tabby, gauze, batting; leather
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Pair of Boots, 1000–1125. China, Northern, Liao dynasty (907-1125). Silk: compound twill; silk and gold: tapestry; silk: tabby, gauze, batting; leather; overall: 32.8 x 25 cm (12 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1992.349.2
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Textiles
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1992.350,a
citations
citation
Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
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Mentioned: p. 77, no. 375
citation
Watt, James C. Y, Anne E Wardwell, Anne E Wardwell, Morris Rossabi. <em>When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 46–48, no. 10
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Klingbiel, Karen, "Conserving the Past", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 37 no. 08, October 1997.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 6–7
citation
Chen, Juanjuan, Nengfu Huang, Wenying Li, and Hao Peng. <em>Chinese Silks</em>. Edited by Dieter Kuhn and Feng Zhao. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.
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Reproduced: fig. 6.60, p. 320
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 11:27:01.405000
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156751
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Textiles
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Silk: compound twill; silk and gold: tapestry; silk: tabby, gauze, batting; leather
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