Manchu

Pendents (For Bed Curtains)

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1736/95
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
270.3 × 19.2 cm (106.4 × 7.6 in)

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