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date: label: Date
content: Ming dynasty, 1368–1644
notes: label: Description
content: Most of a Ming dynasty Sixth Rank square showing a pair of egrets with spread wings arched across a gold sky filled with brightly colored attenuated cloud streamers. Birds are white with the characteristic slender head plume, yellow beak, feet and eyes, with pale green details. Cloud bands are white with shades of blue, pale green, yellow and vermillion on a gold metallic ground.
place: label: made in
content: China
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-432
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
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objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry or k'ossu), open slits
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 34.3 x 39.4 cm (13 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.)