Game

Museum number:
9-15707
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015707
Alternate number:
1181 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Parchesi game "board". Wool ground, silk embroidery, cotton lining. Plain weave, embroidered, plain weave lining, printed. Red ground, varicolored designs, red, brown, white lining with orange, gold and green. Floral,, geometric motives. Groundi moth eaten. 26 inches by 25½ inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
INDIA: Agra
Culture or time period:
Indian
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.6 Sports, Games, Amusements; Gambling and Pet Accessories
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 26 inches and length 26 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 9-15707, described as Parchesi game "board". Wool ground, silk embroidery, cotton lining. Plain weave, embroidered, plain weave lining, printed. Red ground, varicolored designs, red, brown, white lining with orange, gold and green. Floral,, geometric motives. Groundi moth eaten. 26 inches by 25½ inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 9-15707, described as Parchesi game "board". Wool ground, silk embroidery, cotton lining. Plain weave, embroidered, plain weave lining, printed. Red ground, varicolored designs, red, brown, white lining with orange, gold and green. Floral,, geometric motives. Groundi moth eaten. 26 inches by 25½ inches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 9-15707, described as Parchesi game "board". Wool ground, silk embroidery, cotton lining. Plain weave, embroidered, plain weave lining, printed. Red ground, varicolored designs, red, brown, white lining with orange, gold and green. Floral,, geometric motives. Groundi moth eaten. 26 inches by 25½ inches.

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