Textile

Museum number:
9-17695
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090017695
Accession number:
Acc.3941
Description:
Embroidery: white silk satin worked w/ multicolor silk floss in bright hues; male & female phoenix in fantasy landscape w/ peonies. White paper mount. Mount stamped w/ "Hung Tai Dealers of Embroidery CO. #4 Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong". Made for toursit trade, brought by refugees from Shanghai. 42.6 cm L. w/ mount.
Donor:
Marie Richardson and Richard L. Phillips
Collection place:
Hong Kong
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Phoenixes
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
June 1984
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-17695, described as Embroidery: white silk satin worked w/ multicolor silk floss in bright hues; male & female phoenix in fantasy landscape w/ peonies. White paper mount. Mount stamped w/ "Hung Tai Dealers of Embroidery CO. #4 Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong". Made for toursit trade, brought by refugees from Shanghai. 42.6 cm L. w/ mount.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-17695, described as Embroidery: white silk satin worked w/ multicolor silk floss in bright hues; male & female phoenix in fantasy landscape w/ peonies. White paper mount. Mount stamped w/ "Hung Tai Dealers of Embroidery CO. #4 Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong". Made for toursit trade, brought by refugees from Shanghai. 42.6 cm L. w/ mount.

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