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Thanka (Religious Picture)

Manchu

Art Institute of Chicago

Artwork details

Date:
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
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
2555 × 4500 px
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