Silk Asian Tangka
- Artist/Creator
- Unknown maker
- Title
- Silk Asian Tangka
- Date
- ca. 1920
- Medium
- silk, damask, metal-wrapped threads
- Height
- 59 3/8" (approx.)
- Width
- 36 3/8" (approx.)
- Classification
- Textiles
- Thematic Collection
- Textiles
- Credit Line
- Gift of Susan Wright, in memory of her mother, Jane Richardson Wright (a volunteer at the Schenectady Museum Collections Department for 20 years) and Susan's brother (Jane's son), William Arnold Wright (Union College Class of 1980, Electrical Engineering).
- Object Number
- 2015.22
- Rights
- No Known Copyright
- Alternative text
- Framed needlework textile depicting six kneeling figures against a sinuous cloud background in poses and symbols that suggest they may have some relationship to Tibetan/Vajrayana/Buddhism; sun depicted the upper left corner, and moon in upper right corner using metal wrapped threads; lined with purple damask with a sinuous cloud motif.