Sleeve band
- Museum number:
- 9-21626
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090021626
- Alternate number:
- MVC-0588 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4734
- Description:
- Imperial Era silk sleeve band; greenish/gold ground with black border edged in gray 3.5 cm wide. Chrysanthemums, peonies & other floral motifs; pink, blue, green and yellow on greenish gold background. Backing is blue green.
- Donor:
- Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
- Collection place:
- China
- Verbatim coll. place:
- China
- Culture or time period:
- Chinese
- Collector:
- Rachel Gould Mossman
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile), Linen (material), Linen (material) (silk; satin and ���forbidden��� stitch embroidery; cotton or linen backing), Satin, and Silk
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Embroidery (visual works)
- Function:
- 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2006
- Context of use:
- Originally part of a woman’s garment; reused as a wall hanging
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- length 46 centimeters and width 9 centimeters
- Comment:
- Conservation: Small repairs; frayed couching stabilized; hole mended
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