Skirt

Museum number:
9-21613
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0575 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Skirt: length: 95.0 cm waist to hem; width: 116.5 cm overlap, 116.5 cm underlap: Imperial Era; red, patterned silk, with central front panel and pleaded shirt. Lower ⅓ of front panel is embroidered with pattern including an urn surrounded by flowers (blue, red-orange, white, black, gold, pale blue, and bordered with bands of royal blue. Shirt bottom is banded with the same royal blue. Flowers and butterflies are embroidered randomly on the lower ⅓ of the pleated skirt. Skirt is attached to a wide waist band of dark gray cotton.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
Woman’s garment
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 116.5 centimeters and length 95 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: Choice! per Kathleen Vitale
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 9-21613, described as Skirt: length: 95.0 cm waist to hem; width: 116.5 cm overlap, 116.5 cm underlap: Imperial Era; red, patterned silk, with central front panel and pleaded shirt. Lower ⅓ of front panel is embroidered with pattern including an urn surrounded by flowers (blue, red-orange, white, black, gold, pale blue, and bordered with bands of royal blue. Shirt bottom is banded with the same royal blue. Flowers and butterflies are embroidered randomly on the lower ⅓ of the pleated skirt. Skirt is attached to a wide waist band of dark gray cotton.

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