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A work made of 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.

Thanka (Religious Picture)

18th century, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Manchu China

China

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

Textiles