Textile fragment

Museum number:
9-12093
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2965
Description:
Textile fragment; Chinese silk brocade; floral and curvilinear pattern in purple and on cream on cream satin ground; L. 20.5 cm., W. 14 cm.; made by Chinese weavers; part of an old sari blouse. Parsis thought very highly of Chinese brocades.
Donor:
Piroja Narielwala
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Culture or time period:
Parsi
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions) and Textile samples
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-12093, described as Textile fragment; Chinese silk brocade; floral and curvilinear pattern in purple and on cream on cream satin ground; L. 20.5 cm., W. 14 cm.; made by Chinese weavers; part of an old sari blouse. Parsis thought very highly of Chinese brocades.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-12093, described as Textile fragment; Chinese silk brocade; floral and curvilinear pattern in purple and on cream on cream satin ground; L. 20.5 cm., W. 14 cm.; made by Chinese weavers; part of an old sari blouse. Parsis thought very highly of Chinese brocades.

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