Coat

Museum number:
9-21614
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0576 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Man’s coat; length: 133.0 cm shoulder to hem; width: 224.0 cm around hem; Imperial Era; predominately blue woven silk, with swastika patterns woven into the fabric. Manchu-style sleeves; slit weaving (Kossu), painted bats and symbols; center lapel and both sides of front and back embroidered with 5-toed dragons in gold thread and a pair of fish in the center, surrounded by clouds, sleeves are brown and gold striped w. embroidered cuffs; gold buttons; wide water pattern at bottom.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Culture or time period:
Manchu people
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dragons
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
Man’s garment
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 133 centimeters and width 224 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: Cigarette burn holes
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Coat, accession number 9-21614, described as Man’s coat; length: 133.0 cm shoulder to hem; width: 224.0 cm around hem; Imperial Era; predominately blue woven silk, with swastika patterns woven into the fabric. Manchu-style sleeves; slit weaving (Kossu), painted bats and symbols; center lapel and both sides of front and back embroidered with 5-toed dragons in gold thread and a pair of fish in the center, surrounded by clouds, sleeves are brown and gold striped w. embroidered cuffs; gold buttons; wide water pattern at bottom.

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