Flag; dragon flag of oilied industrial muslin painted on both sides w/polychrome dragon w/red globe above.
Donor:
Mrs. G. E. Stockle
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China, unsp.
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
G. E. Stockle and Mrs. G. E. Stockle
Materials:
Paint (coating)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dragons and Flags
Function:
3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Accession date:
1938
Context of use:
Geoffrey Brown, LMA conservator, suspects that this piece was not painted by Chinese nationals ans is perhaps a tourist piece from S. F. Chinatown. Fide Geoffrey Brown, June 1985.