Collar, child’s; Five petals in light green, midnight blue, cinnabar, hunter green, and mouse grey. All edges piped in black outside narrow silk tape, with blue edges and running diamond pattern, scalloped on one side. Embroidery is in satine stitch. petal 1: Moth and bird on flowering branch. Petal 2: double coin and bat with peach branch; Petal 3: bat over orchids; Petal 4: reed pipes (mouth organ?) over lotus; Petal 5: chrysanthemum. (Fide: Ilse Fang, 8/28/2001: Motifs may be seasonal. Medium to good embroidery quality.) Paper interfacing, peach-colored silk lining. ca. 1900. Girl’s name written on back of petal 4” T’ung Hsueh-yuan. Petals: 10 cm long, 11.5 cam; neck opening: ca. 8 cm.
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
Peking, Beijing province, China
Verbatim coll. place:
China; Peking. From antique dealer, Erich Wolters.
Culture or time period:
Chinese and Qing dynasty (1644–1912 AD)
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection date:
1945
Materials:
Paper (fiber product) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Collars (neckwear)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
ca. 1900
Accession date:
December 15, 1998
Context of use:
Name and flower motif suggest this collar is for a girl. Fide: Ilse Fang. (Fide: Ilse M. Fang, 8/28/2001: for a very young infant for special circumstances.)