Thanka (Religious Picture)
Manchu
1701–1800
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 2:1 'S' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; painted details
- Dimensions
- 150.2 × 78.8 cm (59 1/2 × 31 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
qingsilk (fiber)ritual objectsTextilepaper (fiber product)weaving
