Textile fragments

Museum number:
9-12107a-c
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2965
Description:
Textile fragments; examples of body and borders of a silk sari; a) body of sari; floral motifs in blue and yellow brocaded on pink ground; 25 X 22 cm; b) border; floral band brocaded in yellow on pink ground; 16 x 15 cm; C) border; enlarged version of b) 15.5 x 8 cm. Part of an old Benares silk sari.
Donor:
Piroja Narielwala
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Culture or time period:
Parsi
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions) and Textile samples
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragments, accession number 9-12107a-c, described as Textile fragments; examples of body and borders of a silk sari; a) body of sari; floral motifs in blue and yellow brocaded on pink ground; 25 X 22 cm; b) border; floral band brocaded in yellow on pink ground; 16 x 15 cm; C) border; enlarged version of b) 15.5 x 8 cm. Part of an old Benares silk sari.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragments, accession number 9-12107a-c, described as Textile fragments; examples of body and borders of a silk sari; a) body of sari; floral motifs in blue and yellow brocaded on pink ground; 25 X 22 cm; b) border; floral band brocaded in yellow on pink ground; 16 x 15 cm; C) border; enlarged version of b) 15.5 x 8 cm. Part of an old Benares silk sari.

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