Title: Silkworm
Object type: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf
Date: dated 1859
Culture: China
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Artist:  Ju Chao 
Artist bio: Chinese, ca. 1823–1889
Artist nationality: Chinese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
Dimensions: 7 1/4 x 21 in. (18.4 x 53.3 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Insects