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Brocade with Soaring Phoenixes among Clouds , 1100s-1200s. Brocade with Soaring Phoenixes among Clouds Tabby, brocaded; silk and gold thread Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1994.292 (Cat. no. 31) The gold-brocaded designs of Jin brocades, such as this example with graceful phoenixes soaring into clouds, are typically asymmetrical. Moreover, they have no frame or border, and appear to have been cut out of larger decorative images.