MVC-0574 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Skirt ; L=94.8 cm waist to hem; W= 146.0 cm overlap, 144.5 cm underlap; Imperial Era; Cream sikl w/ woven floral pattern. Central front panel heafily decorated with w/ blue floral ad multicolored birds, emborideryed on cream ground, and bordered with blue-embroidered tapes on black ground. Pleats of skirt are edged w/ embroidered blue floral tapes on black ground and there are emboridered blue flowers between pleats. Skirt is attached to a wide cotton waistband
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes