Skirt

Museum number:
9-15418
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3005 (previous number (Albert Bender’s number)) and 3696 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Wrap skirt; wool, cotton, silk; sewing, embroidery. ribbon binding; kelly green ground, red, multicolor; 51 1/2 inch waistline, 34 1/2 inch long, center front; wrap skirt of kelly green wool in 2 pieces on a red cotton waistline band. Vertical and bottom borders of embroidered strips, ribbon, bindings, and multicolor embroidery of ocean, phoenix and dragon and green wool.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
CHINA
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Materials:
Silk and Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Phoenixes and Skirts (garments)
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 38 inches and length 84 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 9-15418, described as Wrap skirt; wool, cotton, silk; sewing, embroidery. ribbon binding; kelly green ground, red, multicolor; 51 1/2 inch waistline, 34 1/2 inch long, center front; wrap skirt of kelly green wool in 2 pieces on a red cotton waistline band. Vertical and bottom borders of embroidered strips, ribbon, bindings, and multicolor embroidery of ocean, phoenix and dragon and green wool.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 9-15418, described as Wrap skirt; wool, cotton, silk; sewing, embroidery. ribbon binding; kelly green ground, red, multicolor; 51 1/2 inch waistline, 34 1/2 inch long, center front; wrap skirt of kelly green wool in 2 pieces on a red cotton waistline band. Vertical and bottom borders of embroidered strips, ribbon, bindings, and multicolor embroidery of ocean, phoenix and dragon and green wool.

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