Textile

Museum number:
9-16619
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3792
Description:
Cloth band. Pictorial garden scenes with men and women in the garden riding white stallions and walking carrying flag and wand. Stylized clouds, water and earth. Bats (Happiness), Endless knot (one of the eight Buddhist symbols). 15cm x 91cm (unfinished). Polychrome embroidery with silk thread on ivory colored satin. Cloth is stained. One of a pair. Other is 9-16620.
Donor:
Estate of Margaret Hampson
Collection place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-16619, described as Cloth band. Pictorial garden scenes with men and women in the garden riding white stallions and walking carrying flag and wand. Stylized clouds, water and earth. Bats (Happiness), Endless knot (one of the eight Buddhist symbols). 15cm x 91cm (unfinished). Polychrome embroidery with silk thread on ivory colored satin. Cloth is stained. One of a pair. Other is 9-16620.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-16619, described as Cloth band. Pictorial garden scenes with men and women in the garden riding white stallions and walking carrying flag and wand. Stylized clouds, water and earth. Bats (Happiness), Endless knot (one of the eight Buddhist symbols). 15cm x 91cm (unfinished). Polychrome embroidery with silk thread on ivory colored satin. Cloth is stained. One of a pair. Other is 9-16620.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-16619, described as Cloth band. Pictorial garden scenes with men and women in the garden riding white stallions and walking carrying flag and wand. Stylized clouds, water and earth. Bats (Happiness), Endless knot (one of the eight Buddhist symbols). 15cm x 91cm (unfinished). Polychrome embroidery with silk thread on ivory colored satin. Cloth is stained. One of a pair. Other is 9-16620.

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