Textile

Museum number:
9-16620
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090016620
Accession number:
Acc.3792
Description:
Cloth band. Hunting scenes with men and women riding horses and on foot wearing elaborate costumes. Stylized clouds, earth and water, flowers, trees; symbols include the Endless knot (one of the eight Buddhist symbols), Bats (Happiness). Polychrome embroidery with silk thread on ivory colored satin. Cloth is stained. One of a pair, other is 9-16619. 16cm x 105cm (unfinished).
Donor:
Estate of Margaret Hampson
Collection place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-16620, described as Cloth band. Hunting scenes with men and women riding horses and on foot wearing elaborate costumes. Stylized clouds, earth and water, flowers, trees; symbols include the Endless knot (one of the eight Buddhist symbols), Bats (Happiness). Polychrome embroidery with silk thread on ivory colored satin. Cloth is stained. One of a pair, other is 9-16619. 16cm x 105cm (unfinished).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-16620, described as Cloth band. Hunting scenes with men and women riding horses and on foot wearing elaborate costumes. Stylized clouds, earth and water, flowers, trees; symbols include the Endless knot (one of the eight Buddhist symbols), Bats (Happiness). Polychrome embroidery with silk thread on ivory colored satin. Cloth is stained. One of a pair, other is 9-16619. 16cm x 105cm (unfinished).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-16620, described as Cloth band. Hunting scenes with men and women riding horses and on foot wearing elaborate costumes. Stylized clouds, earth and water, flowers, trees; symbols include the Endless knot (one of the eight Buddhist symbols), Bats (Happiness). Polychrome embroidery with silk thread on ivory colored satin. Cloth is stained. One of a pair, other is 9-16619. 16cm x 105cm (unfinished).

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