Textile

Museum number:
9-21599
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0561 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Obi cloth; two joined panels of heavy ecru silk, woven with repeat patterns of butterlies, phoenix birds and floral groupings in dark red, green navy blue, pink, lavender, white, red-orange, pale blue cream, white, and silver and gold metalic threads
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Phoenixes
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:
length 442 centimeters and width 68.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21599, described as Obi cloth; two joined panels of heavy ecru silk, woven with repeat patterns of butterlies, phoenix birds and floral groupings in dark red, green navy blue, pink, lavender, white, red-orange, pale blue cream, white, and silver and gold metalic threads

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