Bed Curtain by Manchu China, textile, 1650-1750

Bed Curtain

Manchu China

Year
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago

Cultural & Historical Context

Classification
Textile
Culture
China

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