Bag

Museum number:
9-15431
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015431
Alternate number:
1761 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.05
Description:
Bag; silk, cotton lining, gilt paper wrapped yarns; ground entirely covered with embroidery, plain weave lining, knotted netting, tassels; multicolored; 10 by 5 inches, irregular; butterfly, floral motives.
Donor:
Anita Day Symmes Blake, Anson Stiles Blake, and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
CHINA
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers) and Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 5 inches and length 16 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 9-15431, described as Bag; silk, cotton lining, gilt paper wrapped yarns; ground entirely covered with embroidery, plain weave lining, knotted netting, tassels; multicolored; 10 by 5 inches, irregular; butterfly, floral motives.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 9-15431, described as Bag; silk, cotton lining, gilt paper wrapped yarns; ground entirely covered with embroidery, plain weave lining, knotted netting, tassels; multicolored; 10 by 5 inches, irregular; butterfly, floral motives.

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