Headband
- Museum number:
- 9-21246
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090021246
- Alternate number:
- 1 - 6 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4697
- Description:
- Headband and neckguard for a child. Midnight-blue satin; tacked-back ear flaps black-bordered yellow satin. Lower neck end scalloped. Over it water, rocks, lotus, clouds, butterflies. Headband: various flowers; earflaps: peach blossoms. Heart-shaped sculpted flower on center top, in red satin. Mostly coarse satin and stem stitch. Seed stitch where appropriate, and exclusively on ear flaps. Cerulean blue silk lining. Split on lower side reveals interfacing of satin before embroidering, and silk-waste padding. Overall length of folded piece: 36 cm; width of unfolded lower end: 28 cm; front end height: 12 cm; height of neck guard: 22 cm.
- Donor:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection place:
- Peking, Beijing province, China
- Verbatim coll. place:
- China. Peking. Given to Ilse Fang in Peking by Erich Wolters, antique dealer.
- Culture or time period:
- Manchu people and Qing dynasty (1644–1912 AD)
- Collector:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection date:
- 1945
- Materials:
- Satin and Silk
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Embroidery (visual works) and Headbands (headgear)
- Function:
- 2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
- Production date:
- Manchu Dynasty
- Accession date:
- December 15, 1998
- Context of use:
- Headband and neckguard for a child. Dated Manchu Dynasty, 1644-1911.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- Front end— height 12 centimeters, Unfolded lower end— width 28 centimeters, Folded piece— length 36 centimeters, and Neck guard— height 22 centimeters
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