Chinese Color AtlasHERITAGE · OBJECT & MOTIF RECORD
THE MET OPEN ACCESS · CC0
REVIEWED 2026-07-22
REVIEWED 2026-07-22
Dragon Boat Festival tapestry
Dragon Boat Festival tapestry

Silk tapestry · 49.47
Dragon Boat Festival tapestry
Dragon Boat Festival tapestry
Boats, figures, water, and architecture organize a festival scene with useful horizontal rhythm and multicolored thread.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 49.47 ↗Public Domain · The Met Open Access (CC0) ↗
01 · EVIDENCE BOUNDARY
What this relationship means
The museum title explicitly identifies a Dragon Boat Festival performance. Colors are a modern mapping from the atlas.
02 · VISIBLE MOTIFS
Forms to observe
03 · EDITORIAL COLOR
A design reading, not a reconstruction
△ These colors are selected from the Chinese Color Atlas for contemporary design use. They do not claim to measure or restore the object's original pigments.
04 · CONTINUE THE ATLAS