Pouch

Museum number:

9-21270

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21090021270

Alternate number:

VI-15 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.4697

Description:

Man’s leather pouch (to be worn on belt). Back trapeze-shaped buffalo (?) leather, edged with donkey skin. Unlined. Rounded corners. Front wider on top but gathered with a fold into the same shape as the back. Heavy white silk cord runs through two times three holes in front, two holes in back, where the loop can be fastened to the belt. A center panel of doubled brownish cotton-cloth creates two compartments. Front completely covered with split-stitch embroidery on terrra cotta colored silk. The words “A container for a whole mass of Treasures” appear in the lower half among flowers. Wider donkey skin triple-stitched; front holes leather-reinforced. Pouch 19 cm wide at bottom;16.5 at top; height 15 cm.

Donor:

Ilse Martin Fang

Collection place:

Peking, Beijing province, China

Verbatim coll. place:

China. Purchased in Peking from Erich Wolters, antique dealer, in 1944. Dates: first half of 20th century.

Culture or time period:

Chinese

Collector:

Ilse Martin Fang

Collection date:

1944

Materials:

Leather, Silk, and Skin (collagenous material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Embroidery (visual works) and Pouches

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements

Production date:

First half of 20th century

Accession date:

December 15, 1998

Context of use:

“A container for a whole mass of treasures”

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

Dimensions:

Height— height 15 centimeters, width 19 centimeters, and width 16.5 centimeters

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