Pillow ends

Museum number:
9-21254a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
VI - 8 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4697
Description:
Pillow ends. Pair of green broadcloth panels on cobalt blue broadcloth, framed, from the inside out, by a heather-colored, patterned weave piping, a black broadcloth frame, and the same width of the blue broadcloth. Embroidery in gold and silver thread overlay, secured with red silk thread. a) Double coin, gourd, and bat. b) cock and moth on coxcomb. Panel width: 17 cm; height: 8.5 cm.
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
Peking, Beijing province, China
Verbatim coll. place:
China. Purchased by Ilse Fang at flea market in Peking.
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection date:
1944
Materials:
Silk and Silk (embroidery. sewing. broadcloth, silk thread)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Pillows
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
December 15, 1998
Context of use:
Pillow ends. The non-garish color scheme would indicate that the pillow with these ends would be given to a middle-aged person.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 8.5 centimeters and width 17 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pillow ends, accession number 9-21254a,b, described as Pillow ends. Pair of green broadcloth panels on cobalt blue broadcloth, framed, from the inside out, by a heather-colored, patterned weave piping, a black broadcloth frame, and the same width of the blue broadcloth. Embroidery in gold and silver thread overlay, secured with red silk thread. a) Double coin, gourd, and bat. b) cock and moth on coxcomb. Panel width: 17 cm; height: 8.5 cm.

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