Coat

Museum number:
9-17947
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3439
Description:
long style, blue silk with overall pattern in gold and silver wrapped thread couching, multi color embroidery of human figures, domestic scenes and landscapes; cloud collar, bindings, wide embroidered sleeve bands, brass buttons and aqua figured silk lining. 105.7 cml circa 1850 and may have matched the bindings. Both these have had re-embroidered areas where the black or beige thread dyes with dyes containing tannic acid has disintegrated Filde Mary Hays, May 1988
Donor:
Edward J. Mahoney Jr. and Mrs. E. J. Mahoney Jr.
Collection place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coats (garments)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coat, accession number 9-17947, described as long style, blue silk with overall pattern in gold and silver wrapped thread couching, multi color embroidery of human figures, domestic scenes and landscapes; cloud collar, bindings, wide embroidered sleeve bands, brass buttons and aqua figured silk lining. 105.7 cml circa 1850 and may have matched the bindings. Both these have had re-embroidered areas where the black or beige thread dyes with dyes containing tannic acid has disintegrated Filde Mary Hays, May 1988Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coat, accession number 9-17947, described as long style, blue silk with overall pattern in gold and silver wrapped thread couching, multi color embroidery of human figures, domestic scenes and landscapes; cloud collar, bindings, wide embroidered sleeve bands, brass buttons and aqua figured silk lining. 105.7 cml circa 1850 and may have matched the bindings. Both these have had re-embroidered areas where the black or beige thread dyes with dyes containing tannic acid has disintegrated Filde Mary Hays, May 1988

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