Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1820/30

China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)
Place: China (Object made in)
Date: Made 1820–1830
Medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in flat, knot, satin, padded satin, surface satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; four panels joined
Dimensions: 172.7 × 137.2 cm (68 × 54 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. John J. Ireland
Reference Number: 1962.592a
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John E. Vollmer, “Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago,” published in conjunction with the exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, no. 2 (2000): 36-7, 64, cat. 34, plate XVII (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 13, 2000–Jan. 2, 2001, cat. 34.

Originally purchased from Marshall Field & Company for the Pageant of Pekin. Marshall Field & Company purchased object from Tai Yuan Fu City of Shansi Province in 1933.

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