Pendents (For Bed Curtains)

Pendents (For Bed Curtains)

Manchu

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1736/95

Accession Number

22541

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

a: 270.3 × 19.2 cm (106 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.); b: 269.8 × 19.2 cm (106 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Orientals