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Art Institute of Chicago

Sutra Cover

Unrecorded artist

Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 1597

Attribution
China
Medium
Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, satin weave with patterning wefts; wrapped over cardboard and backed with paper; sutra, accordion-mounted
Physical dimensions
36.7 × 12.2 cm (14 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 33.8 cm (13 1/4 in.); Pages open: 36.7 × 36.7 cm (14 1/2 × 14 1/2 in.)
Credit line
Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and The Walter E. Heller Foundation Endowment
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