Textile fragment

Museum number:
9-12094
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2965
Description:
Textile fragment; Chinese silk brocade; floral motifs on pink, white and green on natural satin ground; pink satin lining attached to brocade sample; L. 18.5 cm., W. 12.5 cm.; made by Chinese weavers; part of an old sari or sari blouse; Chinese brocades were highly valued by Parsis.
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 fragment, accession number 9-12094, described as Textile fragment; Chinese silk brocade; floral motifs on pink, white and green on natural satin ground; pink satin lining attached to brocade sample; L. 18.5 cm., W. 12.5 cm.; made by Chinese weavers; part of an old sari or sari blouse; Chinese brocades were highly valued by Parsis.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-12094, described as Textile fragment; Chinese silk brocade; floral motifs on pink, white and green on natural satin ground; pink satin lining attached to brocade sample; L. 18.5 cm., W. 12.5 cm.; made by Chinese weavers; part of an old sari or sari blouse; Chinese brocades were highly valued by Parsis.

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