Textile Ornaments(?): Pair of Phoenixes
- Chinese name
- 金双凤纹饰片
- Pinyin
- Medium
- Gold
- Accession no.
- 1942.1083
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
A pair of sheet-gold ornaments cut and chased with confronting phoenixes, excavated in China and dated to the eighth century. Sheet-gold work of this thinness was typically applied to textile or leather rather than worn directly against the body, which is why the museum records the function as uncertain.