Sleeve border fragment

Museum number:
9-13546
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090013546
Accession number:
Acc.3360
Description:
Sleeve border fragment. White silk satin, embroidered with two lions and a cub, and three religious objects with fillets. Multicolor with gold outlines, and imitation pearl beads on lions. Hems glued later. Length: 63 cm; width: 9 cm China, att. Background: silk; satin weave. Pattern area: silk, gold wrapped silk, imitation pearl beads; Chinese knot, couching, beading, satin stitch. Part of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Late 19th or early 20th century Symbolism: Lion - valor, energy, Buddhist symbol Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 217-218
Donor:
Arlene Miller Rolkin
Collection place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sleeve borders
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13546, described as Sleeve border fragment. White silk satin, embroidered with two lions and a cub, and three religious objects with fillets. Multicolor with gold outlines, and imitation pearl beads on lions. Hems glued later. Length: 63 cm; width: 9 cm China, att. Background: silk; satin weave. Pattern area: silk, gold wrapped silk, imitation pearl beads; Chinese knot, couching, beading, satin stitch. Part of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Late 19th or early 20th century Symbolism: Lion - valor, energy, Buddhist symbol Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 217-218
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragment, accession number 9-13546, described as Sleeve border fragment. White silk satin, embroidered with two lions and a cub, and three religious objects with fillets. Multicolor with gold outlines, and imitation pearl beads on lions. Hems glued later. Length: 63 cm; width: 9 cm China, att. Background: silk; satin weave. Pattern area: silk, gold wrapped silk, imitation pearl beads; Chinese knot, couching, beading, satin stitch. Part of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Late 19th or early 20th century Symbolism: Lion - valor, energy, Buddhist symbol Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 217-218

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