Pendent (For Bed Curtain)

Pendent (For Bed Curtain)

Manchu

Qing Dynasty (1644–1911, 1701/50

Accession Number

236659

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

269.8 × 20.8 cm (106 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Orientals