Book binding fragments

Museum number:
9-5751a,b
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.374
Description:
Two leather book bindings; each is only half; lacquered in varicolored floral designs on black ground; red paper interior; (a) 3½ inches by 3¾ inches; (b) 3⅜ inches by 3¾ inches; probably for similar volumes not both covers of one book.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Iran (Persia)
Verbatim coll. place:
Persia
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1909
Materials:
Leather and Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions)
Function:
7. Communication, Records, Currency, and Measures
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Book binding fragments, accession number 9-5751a,b, described as Two leather book bindings; each is only half; lacquered in varicolored floral designs on black ground; red paper interior; (a) 3½ inches by 3¾ inches; (b) 3⅜ inches by 3¾ inches; probably for similar volumes not both covers of one book.

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