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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13539b, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13540b, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13527b, described as Sleeve border fragment. Yellow silk satin, embroidered with "100 antique" design in green, pink, blue. Game board, scroll, musical stone, three-legged bronze, books. Also flowers, pomegranate, citrus fruit. Hems glued later. A,B each stamped "Made in China". A,B are mirror images. Length: 53 cm; width: 8 cm. China Background: silk, satin weave. Pattern area: silk, Chinese knot Parts of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Mid 19th century. Symbolism: Musical stone - harmony; Pomegranate - fertility; Citrus fruit - Buddha's hand; Peony - riches, honor, love, spring; Grass orchid - modesty Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 41, 194, 263, 299, 345
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13544a, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13547a, described as Sleeve border fragment. Yellow silk satin, densely embroidered in blues and browns, with four birds surrounded by blossoms and leaves. Single grass orchid at one end. Some deterioration of brown thread on birds. b. is stamped "Made in China". Hems glued later. Length: 71 cm; width: 7.5 cm each. A,B are mirror images. China, att.; B) China Background: silk; satin weave Pattern area: untwisted silk; satin stitch, split stitch Parts of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Late 19th century Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13547b, described as Sleeve border fragment. Yellow silk satin, densely embroidered in blues and browns, with four birds surrounded by blossoms and leaves. Single grass orchid at one end. Some deterioration of brown thread on birds. b. is stamped "Made in China". Hems glued later. Length: 71 cm; width: 7.5 cm each. A,B are mirror images. China Background: silk; satin weave Pattern area: untwisted silk; satin stitch, split stitch Parts of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Late 19th century Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13527a, described as Sleeve border fragment. Yellow silk satin, embroidered with "100 antique" design in green, pink, blue. Game board, scroll, musical stone, three-legged bronze, books. Also flowers, pomegranate, citrus fruit. Hems glued later. A,B each stamped "Made in China". A,B are mirror images. Length: 53 cm; width: 8 cm. China Background: silk, satin weave. Pattern area: silk, Chinese knot Parts of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Mid 19th century. Symbolism: Musical stone - harmony; Pomegranate - fertility; Citrus fruit - Buddha's hand; Peony - riches, honor, love, spring; Grass orchid - modesty Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 41, 194, 263, 299, 345
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13537b, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13540a, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13539a, no description available.

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