Dragon Boat Festival tapestry

Silk tapestry · 49.47

Dragon Boat Festival tapestry

DATEQing dynasty

CULTUREChina

MEDIUMSilk and metallic thread

INSTITUTIONThe Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

dragon boatwater linesmulticolored thread

03 · EDITORIAL COLOR

A design reading, not a reconstruction

Shi Lu#206864

Mugwort Green#A4E2C6

Vermilion#FF4C00

Ming Huang#DCB114

△ 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