Sleeve border fragments

Museum number:
9-13527a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210913527a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.3360
Description:
Sleeve border fragments. Yellow silk satin, embroidered with "100 antique" design in green, pink, blue. Game board, scroll, musical stone, three-legged bronze, books. Also flowers, pomegranate, citrus fruit. Hems glued later. A,B each stamped "Made in China". A,B are mirror images. Length: 53 cm; width: 8 cm each. China Background: silk, satin weave. Pattern area: silk, Chinese knot Parts of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Mid 19th century. Symbolism: Musical stone - harmony; Pomegranate - fertility; Citrus fruit - Buddha's hand; Peony - riches, honor, love, spring; Grass orchid - modesty Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 41, 194, 263, 299, 345
Donor:
Arlene Miller Rolkin
Collection place:
China
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sleeve borders
Production date:
Mid 19th century
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragments, accession number 9-13527a,b, described as Sleeve border fragments. Yellow silk satin, embroidered with "100 antique" design in green, pink, blue. Game board, scroll, musical stone, three-legged bronze, books. Also flowers, pomegranate, citrus fruit. Hems glued later. A,B each stamped "Made in China". A,B are mirror images. Length: 53 cm; width: 8 cm each. China Background: silk, satin weave. Pattern area: silk, Chinese knot Parts of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Mid 19th century. Symbolism: Musical stone - harmony; Pomegranate - fertility; Citrus fruit - Buddha's hand; Peony - riches, honor, love, spring; Grass orchid - modesty Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 41, 194, 263, 299, 345
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragments, accession number 9-13527a,b, described as Sleeve border fragments. Yellow silk satin, embroidered with "100 antique" design in green, pink, blue. Game board, scroll, musical stone, three-legged bronze, books. Also flowers, pomegranate, citrus fruit. Hems glued later. A,B each stamped "Made in China". A,B are mirror images. Length: 53 cm; width: 8 cm each. China Background: silk, satin weave. Pattern area: silk, Chinese knot Parts of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Mid 19th century. Symbolism: Musical stone - harmony; Pomegranate - fertility; Citrus fruit - Buddha's hand; Peony - riches, honor, love, spring; Grass orchid - modesty Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 41, 194, 263, 299, 345

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