Textile

Museum number:
9-13507
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090013507
Accession number:
Acc.3360
Description:
Bias strip. Black silk satin ground, embroidered in two rows with multi-color "hundred antiques" design. Bowls of flowers, butterflies, and gold Buddhist symbols. L. 1 m. 14 cm. W 17 cm. Background: silk, satin weave. Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk; satin stitch, Chinese knot, couching, various filling stitches. Never used; would have been out into two strips and attached to a skirt or jacket as borders and worn on special occasions. 19th c. Symbolism: Butterfly - joy, summer; Peony - riches, honor, love, spring; Plum blossom - long life, winter; Grass orchid - modesty; Rhino horn - protector; Musical stones - harmony; Joo-i - power, scepter Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca (personal contact). Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 42, 205-206, 263, 282, 296-297, 306, 345
Donor:
Arlene Miller Rolkin
Collection place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 9-13507, described as Bias strip. Black silk satin ground, embroidered in two rows with multi-color "hundred antiques" design. Bowls of flowers, butterflies, and gold Buddhist symbols. L. 1 m. 14 cm. W 17 cm. Background: silk, satin weave. Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk; satin stitch, Chinese knot, couching, various filling stitches. Never used; would have been out into two strips and attached to a skirt or jacket as borders and worn on special occasions. 19th c. Symbolism: Butterfly - joy, summer; Peony - riches, honor, love, spring; Plum blossom - long life, winter; Grass orchid - modesty; Rhino horn - protector; Musical stones - harmony; Joo-i - power, scepter Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca (personal contact). Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 42, 205-206, 263, 282, 296-297, 306, 345Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 9-13507, described as Bias strip. Black silk satin ground, embroidered in two rows with multi-color "hundred antiques" design. Bowls of flowers, butterflies, and gold Buddhist symbols. L. 1 m. 14 cm. W 17 cm. Background: silk, satin weave. Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk; satin stitch, Chinese knot, couching, various filling stitches. Never used; would have been out into two strips and attached to a skirt or jacket as borders and worn on special occasions. 19th c. Symbolism: Butterfly - joy, summer; Peony - riches, honor, love, spring; Plum blossom - long life, winter; Grass orchid - modesty; Rhino horn - protector; Musical stones - harmony; Joo-i - power, scepter Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca (personal contact). Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 42, 205-206, 263, 282, 296-297, 306, 345Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 9-13507, described as Bias strip. Black silk satin ground, embroidered in two rows with multi-color "hundred antiques" design. Bowls of flowers, butterflies, and gold Buddhist symbols. L. 1 m. 14 cm. W 17 cm. Background: silk, satin weave. Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk; satin stitch, Chinese knot, couching, various filling stitches. Never used; would have been out into two strips and attached to a skirt or jacket as borders and worn on special occasions. 19th c. Symbolism: Butterfly - joy, summer; Peony - riches, honor, love, spring; Plum blossom - long life, winter; Grass orchid - modesty; Rhino horn - protector; Musical stones - harmony; Joo-i - power, scepter Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca (personal contact). Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 42, 205-206, 263, 282, 296-297, 306, 345
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-13507, described as Bias strip. Black silk satin ground, embroidered in two rows with multi-color "hundred antiques" design. Bowls of flowers, butterflies, and gold Buddhist symbols. L. 1 m. 14 cm. W 17 cm. Background: silk, satin weave. Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk; satin stitch, Chinese knot, couching, various filling stitches. Never used; would have been out into two strips and attached to a skirt or jacket as borders and worn on special occasions. 19th c. Symbolism: Butterfly - joy, summer; Peony - riches, honor, love, spring; Plum blossom - long life, winter; Grass orchid - modesty; Rhino horn - protector; Musical stones - harmony; Joo-i - power, scepter Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca (personal contact). Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 42, 205-206, 263, 282, 296-297, 306, 345

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