Textile sample
- Museum number:
- 9-21279
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090021279
- Alternate number:
- VI - 31 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4697
- Description:
- Embroidery sampler. Sampler on silk gauze over rattan frame. Gauze has inwoven bamboo pattern. Reversed swastika pattern means 10,000 (for long life) or is a Buddhist symbol.
- Donor:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection place:
- Beijing, Beijing municipality, Northern China
- Verbatim coll. place:
- China. Given to Ilse Fang at the Embroidery School of the (Catholic) Sisters of the Holy Spirit, Peking.
- Culture or time period:
- Chinese
- Collector:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection date:
- 1944
- Materials:
- Silk
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Samplers (embroidery)
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- December 15, 1998
- Context of use:
- 1944. Fide: Ilse Fang, 8/28/2001: This is sampler for a child.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Images:
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