Embroidery from a Cloud Collar: Ocean, Rocks, and Peonies
Cleveland Museum of Art

Embroidery from a Cloud Collar: Ocean, Rocks, and Peonies

1300s

silk and silver thread, silvered paper; needleloop embroidery
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Judging from the border on the lower portion, this fragment is most of one lobe of a cloud-collar medallion. Each of the three other original sections would have been embroidered with the same design.

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