Manchu

Thanka (Religious Picture)

18th century, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

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

150.2 × 78.8 cm (59.1 × 31 in)