Textile

Museum number:
9-15446
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015446
Alternate number:
1161 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Possibly a panel; silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns; plain weave, embroidered; black ground, multicolored designs, stripes; 120 by 61 inches; crane, bat, floral, Buddhist symbol motives.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
CHINA
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Textile samples
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes and 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 121 inches and width 61 inches
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-15446, described as Possibly a panel; silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns; plain weave, embroidered; black ground, multicolored designs, stripes; 120 by 61 inches; crane, bat, floral, Buddhist symbol motives.

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