Bride's robe, Korea

Bride's robe from Korea, 19th century. Silk and silk thread embroidery, and paper. Bride's robe from Korea, 19th century. Silk and silk thread embroidery, and paper. Courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art, The Worcester R. Warner Collection 1918.552.

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, has a bride's robe from nineteenth century Korea. It is made of silk with silk thread embroidery; the edges are wrapped with paper. It measures 114 x 174 cm.

The backside is decorated with lotuses and egrets along the bottom, and with peonies and birds along the top. On the front of the sleeves there is a phoenix standing on coloured rocks under the peonies. A text on the shoulders reads: "It is the origin of all fortune to get two family names together." The robe has been frequently mended, and has various patches nd trimmings.

Th gown was acquired on behalf of the Museum in Korea in 1915 by Langdon Warner.

See also the exhibition Gold Needles in the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2020.

Cleveland Museum of Art online catalogue (accessed 23 May 2021).

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