Embroidery sample

Museum number:
9-22868
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
TEMP 2014.0260 (temporary number, original temp number assigned before cataloging)
Accession number:
Acc.4791
Description:
Fabric panel with embroidery of birds in abstract circular formation - multicolored on black fabric face and royal blue verso backing. Embroidery on face has four pairs of birds in a circular pattern around a center circle containing a flower. Embroidery threads are bronze, gold, cream, black, purple, brown, orange and teal.
Donor:
Nelson H.H. Graburn
Collection place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Nelson H.H. Graburn
Materials:
Fabric and Textile
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Samplers (embroidery)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
October 20, 2010
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— length 8.5 inches and whole— height 7.5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Embroidery sample, accession number 9-22868, described as Fabric panel with embroidery of birds in abstract circular formation - multicolored on black fabric face and royal blue verso backing. Embroidery on face has four pairs of birds in a circular pattern around a center circle containing a flower. Embroidery threads are bronze, gold, cream, black, purple, brown, orange and teal.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Embroidery sample, accession number 9-22868, described as Fabric panel with embroidery of birds in abstract circular formation - multicolored on black fabric face and royal blue verso backing. Embroidery on face has four pairs of birds in a circular pattern around a center circle containing a flower. Embroidery threads are bronze, gold, cream, black, purple, brown, orange and teal.

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