MVC-0567 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Woman’s jacket: L=102.0 cm neck to hem; W= 128.2 cm sleeve edge to sleeve edge; Imperial Era, red ground with blue embroidered blue flowers and multicolored butterflies and birds; wide Han-style sleeves with couched gold floral design bordered on medium blue ground, with finishing bands of black embroidered with white, gray and blue. Neck opening, side slits and bottom borders all edged with double bands of black and figured blue-gray separated by red piping; blue lining.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jackets (short coats)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
Woman’s garment
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 102 centimeters and width 128.2 centimeters