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Valances
18th century
- Medium
- Medium: tempera on pineapple fiber, silk fringe Technique: painted on plain weave gauze
- Classification
- Valances
- Dimensions
- H x W (a): 96.7 x 16.7 cm (38 1/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- China
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Marquis Val Verde de la Sierra
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
White sheer fabric painted with a fragmentary floral design in polychrome. Green, red and white fringe on the edges. Tapes for tieing at either end.
