Pendents (For Bed Curtains)

Pendents (For Bed Curtains)

Manchu

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1736/95

Accession Number

151598

Medium

Silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings

Dimensions

271.7 × 21.3 cm (107 × 8 3/8 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Orientals