Textile with deer and a woven inscription

Textile with deer and a woven inscription

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This textile features a small repeating pattern of deer in various postures and six auspicious Chinese characters, all placed along a continuous undulating horizontal.The woven inscription includes the characters for ming guang (brightness). Textiles of the ming guang type are referred to by that term in ancient texts until as late as the reign of Shi Hu (335–49) of the Later Zhao kingdom (328–51).

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.