Turban cover

Museum number:
9-5776
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Accession number:
Acc.374
Description:
Turban cover; silk with metal-wrapped yarns (four types of gold and gold-wrapped silk); corded plainweave (taffeta) embroidery; black ground; center filled with berry or grape sprays; border of flowering sprays surrounds center; four larger corner sprays face center; gold floral chain stitch, flat gold strips couched in herringbone stitches; silk padded gold leaves; fringes. 42 x 44 inches, including fringes.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Armenia
Verbatim coll. place:
Turkey; possibly Armenian work from Malatya or Marash (Donna Osman-Larsen 1975)
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1909
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Turbans
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Turban cover, accession number 9-5776, described as Turban cover; silk with metal-wrapped yarns (four types of gold and gold-wrapped silk); corded plainweave (taffeta) embroidery; black ground; center filled with berry or grape sprays; border of flowering sprays surrounds center; four larger corner sprays face center; gold floral chain stitch, flat gold strips couched in herringbone stitches; silk padded gold leaves; fringes. 42 x 44 inches, including fringes.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Turban cover, accession number 9-5776, described as Turban cover; silk with metal-wrapped yarns (four types of gold and gold-wrapped silk); corded plainweave (taffeta) embroidery; black ground; center filled with berry or grape sprays; border of flowering sprays surrounds center; four larger corner sprays face center; gold floral chain stitch, flat gold strips couched in herringbone stitches; silk padded gold leaves; fringes. 42 x 44 inches, including fringes.

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