Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1763

Manchu
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Manchu
Title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)
Place: China (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1763
Medium: Silk, slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; painted details
Inscriptions: Inscription (translation): Among flowers there is one named orchid. Its color is purple; its leaves protect the flower from the winds, Like a red bird among the many layered mountain peaks, It is difficult to perceive the dawn. Therefore purple orchid, which has not seen the sun in Chinwang Pu's list of all the flowers, When I saw this flower, I used its color to sketch this supplement to the floral history. Written by imperial command in the peaches [third] month of the quiwei year [1763] of the Qianlong [emperor]
Dimensions: 83.1 × 46.4 cm (32 3/4 × 18 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. William J. Calhoun through The Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1913.161
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John E. Vollmer, et al., “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): 27, 58, 86, cat. 18, plate VIII (ill.).

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. 18.

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