Bed Curtain

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Culture

Manchu

Title

Bed Curtain

Place

China (Object made in)

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Made 1650–1750

Medium

center panel and inner borders: 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; outer border: silk, warp-float faced 5:1 twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with cotton, plain weave

Dimensions

235.8 × 252.2 cm (92 1/2 × 99 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel M. Nickerson Fund

Reference Number

1946.467b

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