Pendents (For Bed Curtains)

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1736/95

Manchu
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Manchu
Title: Pendents (For Bed Curtains)
Place: China (Object made in)
Date: Made 1736–1795
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.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Orientals
Reference Number: 1936.130a-b
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John E. Vollmer, “Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago,” published in conjunction with the exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, no. 2 (2000): 25-6, 58, 91-2, cat. 15, plate VI.

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 13, 2000–Jan. 2, 2001, cat. 15.
Salem, MA, Peabody Essex Museum, The Last Empresses of China, Aug. 18, 2018-Feb.10, 2019.

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