Pair of Banners

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1650/1700

China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Pair of Banners
Place: China (Object made in)
Date: Made 1650–1700
Medium: Silk, 7:1 satin damask weave over boards; streamers: silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary patterning wefts, and self-patterning ground wefts; lined with cotton, plain weave
Dimensions: b: 282.7 × 40.6 cm (111 1/4 × 16 in.) c: 277.2 × 40.7 cm (109 1/8 × 16 in.) Warp repeat (streamer): 52.6 cm (20 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Rowena Marsh Abbott
Reference Number: 1952.1009b-c
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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): 38-9, 64, 91, cat. 36, plate XIX.

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