Textile

Museum number:
9-17944
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4271
Description:
Bolt of cloth; red silk satin with alternating designs of stylized twin fish and roundels with abstracted encircling five toed dragon chasing a ball within; brocaded in varicolored threads, 16 in a row, 153 rows; at each end of bolt is a Chinese inscription in gold thread copied from an 18th century textile; width 81.5 cm x cal. 14 m length
Donor:
Bess Teresa Cuddy
Collection place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dragons
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-17944, described as Bolt of cloth; red silk satin with alternating designs of stylized twin fish and roundels with abstracted encircling five toed dragon chasing a ball within; brocaded in varicolored threads, 16 in a row, 153 rows; at each end of bolt is a Chinese inscription in gold thread copied from an 18th century textile; width 81.5 cm x cal. 14 m length
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-17944, described as Bolt of cloth; red silk satin with alternating designs of stylized twin fish and roundels with abstracted encircling five toed dragon chasing a ball within; brocaded in varicolored threads, 16 in a row, 153 rows; at each end of bolt is a Chinese inscription in gold thread copied from an 18th century textile; width 81.5 cm x cal. 14 m length

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