Bedcover

Museum number:
9-15706
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015706
Alternate number:
1176 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Bed cover. Cotton, silk, mirrors. Plain weave, embroidered. White ground, varicolored designs, red binding. Floral motives. Pompoms in center of large motifs. Stained, some mirrors and pompoms lost. 54 inches by 85 inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
New Delhi, Delhi State, India
Verbatim coll. place:
India; Dehli
Materials:
Mica (mineral), Mica (mineral) (silk embroidery, mica, tufts), and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bedcovers and Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bedcover, accession number 9-15706, described as Bed cover. Cotton, silk, mirrors. Plain weave, embroidered. White ground, varicolored designs, red binding. Floral motives. Pompoms in center of large motifs. Stained, some mirrors and pompoms lost. 54 inches by 85 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bedcover, accession number 9-15706, described as Bed cover. Cotton, silk, mirrors. Plain weave, embroidered. White ground, varicolored designs, red binding. Floral motives. Pompoms in center of large motifs. Stained, some mirrors and pompoms lost. 54 inches by 85 inches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bedcover, accession number 9-15706, described as Bed cover. Cotton, silk, mirrors. Plain weave, embroidered. White ground, varicolored designs, red binding. Floral motives. Pompoms in center of large motifs. Stained, some mirrors and pompoms lost. 54 inches by 85 inches.

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