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Valance for altar table
Chinese
Qing dynasty
1650–1700
Object Place: Ch'ing Dynasty, China
Medium/Technique
Silk gauze ground embroidered with silk and couched with gold-wrapped thread
Dimensions
28.5 x 250 cm (11 1/4 x 98 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dudley Leavitt Pickman
Accession Number36.74
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionAltar valance with design of lozenge patterns containing flowers, crane, swastika, crab and other symbols, in solid Florentine stitch embroidery on a silk gauze ground in red, blue, green, brown, tan and yellow silk; medallions in satin stitch with character "shou" in couched gold-wrapped thread; running dragons facing each other with character "shou" between them in couched gold-wrapped thread; silk damask ties attached along the top edge; lined with beige plain-weave silk.
ProvenanceGift of Dudley Leavitt Pickman to the MFA on January 9, 1936