Brocade with Hares (Q60820004)

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collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
material used: silk (Q37681) gold thread (Q29586582)
fabrication method: brocading (Q52800022) plain weave (Q1153946)
depicts: hare (Q63941258)
instance of: textile artwork (Q22075301) brocade (Q649022) textile (Q28823)

catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1991.113

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: The motif of the hare among bushes may relate to the hunting activities of the Khitan, the Jurchen, and the Mongols. Hare hunts are recorded in the Liaoshi (History of the Liao Dynasty) and were

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