Thanka (Religious Picture)
18th century, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
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.)
Classification
textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
184959
About the Artist
Manchu
"Manchu" is a cultural and ethnic designation used in museum collection records to identify objects, textiles, costumes, and decorative arts associated with the Manchu people, a Tungusic group originating from the regions northeast of the Great Wall of China. The Manchus rose to political dominance in 1644 when they conquered the declining Ming dynasty and established the Qing dynasty, which ruled...