Chair cover

Museum number:
9-5673
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Accession number:
Acc.374
Description:
Chair cover; dark blue satin patterned with varicolored silk and flat gold wefts; pieced; patter is 5-clawed dragon and pearl amidst clouds; border: phoenix arabesque in red twill patterned with flat gold thread wefts; lining: silk in blue-yellow-green-brown “tartan” pattern, pieced; length 122.5 cm, width 161 cm
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1909
Materials:
Paper (fiber product) and Satin
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Phoenixes
Function:
4.2 Public Buildings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Chair cover, accession number 9-5673, described as Chair cover; dark blue satin patterned with varicolored silk and flat gold wefts; pieced; patter is 5-clawed dragon and pearl amidst clouds; border: phoenix arabesque in red twill patterned with flat gold thread wefts; lining: silk in blue-yellow-green-brown “tartan” pattern, pieced; length 122.5 cm, width 161 cmHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Chair cover, accession number 9-5673, described as Chair cover; dark blue satin patterned with varicolored silk and flat gold wefts; pieced; patter is 5-clawed dragon and pearl amidst clouds; border: phoenix arabesque in red twill patterned with flat gold thread wefts; lining: silk in blue-yellow-green-brown “tartan” pattern, pieced; length 122.5 cm, width 161 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Chair cover, accession number 9-5673, described as Chair cover; dark blue satin patterned with varicolored silk and flat gold wefts; pieced; patter is 5-clawed dragon and pearl amidst clouds; border: phoenix arabesque in red twill patterned with flat gold thread wefts; lining: silk in blue-yellow-green-brown “tartan” pattern, pieced; length 122.5 cm, width 161 cmDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Chair cover, accession number 9-5673, described as Chair cover; dark blue satin patterned with varicolored silk and flat gold wefts; pieced; patter is 5-clawed dragon and pearl amidst clouds; border: phoenix arabesque in red twill patterned with flat gold thread wefts; lining: silk in blue-yellow-green-brown “tartan” pattern, pieced; length 122.5 cm, width 161 cm

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