Shawl

Museum number:
7-7649
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Alternate number:
3598 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Silk and gold-colored metal shawl; Red-orange, gold: Brocading, sewing; 47.5 by 58.5". Remarks: Rectangular shawl or stole of red-orange silk with gold brocaded design of realistic Birds of Paradise, leave and a hint of flowers. No wrong side, all 4 edges bordered with double hem 5.5" deep of gold lame, mitered corners. Purchased in Paris. Good condition but has some pulled threads, tarnish and thin spots in border of lame.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
France
Verbatim coll. place:
France
Culture or time period:
European
Collection date:
c. 1920
Materials:
Metal and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Dimensions:
width 48 inches and length 59 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 7-7649, described as Silk and gold-colored metal shawl; Red-orange, gold: Brocading, sewing; 47.5 by 58.5". Remarks: Rectangular shawl or stole of red-orange silk with gold brocaded design of realistic Birds of Paradise, leave and a hint of flowers. No wrong side, all 4 edges bordered with double hem 5.5" deep of gold lame, mitered corners. Purchased in Paris. Good condition but has some pulled threads, tarnish and thin spots in border of lame.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 7-7649, described as Silk and gold-colored metal shawl; Red-orange, gold: Brocading, sewing; 47.5 by 58.5". Remarks: Rectangular shawl or stole of red-orange silk with gold brocaded design of realistic Birds of Paradise, leave and a hint of flowers. No wrong side, all 4 edges bordered with double hem 5.5" deep of gold lame, mitered corners. Purchased in Paris. Good condition but has some pulled threads, tarnish and thin spots in border of lame.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 7-7649, described as Silk and gold-colored metal shawl; Red-orange, gold: Brocading, sewing; 47.5 by 58.5". Remarks: Rectangular shawl or stole of red-orange silk with gold brocaded design of realistic Birds of Paradise, leave and a hint of flowers. No wrong side, all 4 edges bordered with double hem 5.5" deep of gold lame, mitered corners. Purchased in Paris. Good condition but has some pulled threads, tarnish and thin spots in border of lame.

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