Wallet

Museum number:
9-21256
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
VI-20 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4697
Description:
Wallet to be carried in riding boot. Covered inside and outside with black broadcloth, bordered with a white, light blue and navy braid. It covers both sides and one bottom together, the other edges separately for the inside and the outside. Top and bottom edges rounded. Inside braids: a narrow green, white pearled tape. Plain outside; inside appliqued with two pink flowering plants. Anthers in satin and know stitch. Both outside and inside made of one piece each. Compartment lined with vermillion red silk, the upper edge with pink, sized cotton cloth. Left panel has a wide inside pocket; the right panel, two narrow ones. Use of inside pockets unknown. A red slip of paper with four cyclical binoms was found in the wallet, stuck in the wide inside pocket. Overall height: 16 cm; width, closed: 9.7 cm.
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
Peking, Beijing province, China
Verbatim coll. place:
China. Manchu (Qing) Dynasty. 1644-1911. Given to Ilse Fang in Peking by Erich Wolters, antique dealer in 1944.
Culture or time period:
Manchu people and Qing dynasty (1644–1912 AD)
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection date:
1944
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Paper (fiber product), Paper (fiber product) (broadcloth. colored braid. embroidery. cotton cloth. silk. paper.), and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works), Miniature (size attribute), and Wallets
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Production date:
Manchu (Qing) Dynasty
Accession date:
December 15, 1998
Context of use:
Wallet to be carried in riding boot.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 9.7 centimeters and height 16 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Wallet, accession number 9-21256, described as Wallet to be carried in riding boot. Covered inside and outside with black broadcloth, bordered with a white, light blue and navy braid. It covers both sides and one bottom together, the other edges separately for the inside and the outside. Top and bottom edges rounded. Inside braids: a narrow green, white pearled tape. Plain outside; inside appliqued with two pink flowering plants. Anthers in satin and know stitch. Both outside and inside made of one piece each. Compartment lined with vermillion red silk, the upper edge with pink, sized cotton cloth. Left panel has a wide inside pocket; the right panel, two narrow ones. Use of inside pockets unknown. A red slip of paper with four cyclical binoms was found in the wallet, stuck in the wide inside pocket. Overall height: 16 cm; width, closed: 9.7 cm.

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