Valance

Textiles

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1799

China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Valance
Place: China (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1799
Medium: Top: cotton, plain weave; block printed; narrow band: silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; upper and lower panels: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; painted details; outer bands: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, dovetailed tapestry weave; ribbon: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; outer edging: silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; lined with cotton, plain weave; painted inscription
Inscriptions: Inscription translation (on reverse): Repair completed at the Yunlin Yuan in the eighth month of the fourth year of Jiaqing
Dimensions: 113.4 × 126 cm (44 3/4 × 49 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. William J. Calhoun through The Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1937.817
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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): 39, 65, cat. 38, plate XX.
Ni Yibin, “The Iconographic Variations of Two Scenes from Romance of the Western Chamber” in Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture, ed. Judith T. Zeitlin, exh. cat. (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, 2014), 104-107 (ill.), cat. 6.18.

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. 38.

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