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Thanka (Religious Picture)
Manchu (China)
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
- Classification
- Religious/Ritual Object
- Dimensions
- 150.2 × 78.8 cm (59 1/2 × 31 in.)
- Culture
- China
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
