Help with this piece of Chinese Art?

Question

Does anyone have any information about the piece titled, "Landscape with Pheasants", from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Simple stuff as in who is the artist? Also Is this a painting, or a pattern used for clothing and such? Any information would be perfect.

 

Answer 1

Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 19th century

Tapestry-woven (kesi) silk; 38 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (97.8 x 62.2 cm)

 

While at first glance this picture of pheasants and a distant landscape looks like a painting, it is actually silk tapestry (kesi). Beginning in the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) and continuing into the late Qing, faithful reproductions of paintings were made in kesi. By contrast, tapestry-woven silks with decorative patterns were produced for clothing and furnishings. By the nineteenth century, kesi pictures show a change in technique: large areas are tapestry-woven in a single color and then details painted in. Here, for example, the river is a single area with painted waves and ripples.