Basketry cap
- Museum number:
- 9-21241a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210921241a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 1 - 11 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4697
- Description:
- a: little boy’s black satin cap. Blue and white lining with off-lozenge-shape pattern. Front center: flower basket (appliqued machine embroidery) over lace strips symbolizing rocks and water. Top right and left: trifoils of bead-chains (clouds?) flanking one paillette star. Red pompom and triangular constellation in star-studded sky represent top rank in imperial examinations. b: bag of beads that have fallen off cap.
- Donor:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection place:
- Peking, Beijing province, China
- Verbatim coll. place:
- China. Given to Ilse Fang in Peking by Erich Wolters, antique dealer.
- Culture or time period:
- Chinese
- Collector:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection date:
- 1943
- Materials:
- Satin
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Basketry (object genre), Caps (headgear), Embroidery (visual works), and Lace (needlework)
- 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:
- Cap, little boy’s. c 1900.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Images:
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