Cloth textile

Museum number:
9-13536a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210913536a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.3360
Description:
Textile Strips. Dark blue silk plain weave ground, each embroidered with archaic design of five flower and bat emblems in oranges and yellows, surrounded by blue flowering vines. Border of fourteen straight rows of gold thread. Brocaded blue and gold tape added later. Hem lining of blue silk. b iis stamped "Made in China". L. 65 cm W. 12 cm each a) China, att. b) China Background: silk, plain weave. Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk thread, satin stitch, couching Supplementary: silk, gold wrapped silk, brocade Possibly hem borders of a man's robe. Late 18th c. or early 19th c. Symbolism: Red bat - joy; Sacred fungus - immortality, goodness; Chrysanthemums - steadfastness, autumn Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 25, 60-61, 293
Donor:
Arlene Miller Rolkin
Collection place:
China
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Cloth textile, accession number 9-13536a,b, described as Textile Strips. Dark blue silk plain weave ground, each embroidered with archaic design of five flower and bat emblems in oranges and yellows, surrounded by blue flowering vines. Border of fourteen straight rows of gold thread. Brocaded blue and gold tape added later. Hem lining of blue silk. b iis stamped "Made in China". L. 65 cm W. 12 cm each a) China, att. b) China Background: silk, plain weave. Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk thread, satin stitch, couching Supplementary: silk, gold wrapped silk, brocade Possibly hem borders of a man's robe. Late 18th c. or early 19th c. Symbolism: Red bat - joy; Sacred fungus - immortality, goodness; Chrysanthemums - steadfastness, autumn Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 25, 60-61, 293
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cloth textile, accession number 9-13536a,b, described as Textile Strips. Dark blue silk plain weave ground, each embroidered with archaic design of five flower and bat emblems in oranges and yellows, surrounded by blue flowering vines. Border of fourteen straight rows of gold thread. Brocaded blue and gold tape added later. Hem lining of blue silk. b iis stamped "Made in China". L. 65 cm W. 12 cm each a) China, att. b) China Background: silk, plain weave. Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk thread, satin stitch, couching Supplementary: silk, gold wrapped silk, brocade Possibly hem borders of a man's robe. Late 18th c. or early 19th c. Symbolism: Red bat - joy; Sacred fungus - immortality, goodness; Chrysanthemums - steadfastness, autumn Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 25, 60-61, 293

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