Sleeve border fragments
- Museum number:
- 9-13542a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210913542a@2cb
- Accession number:
- Acc.3360
- Description:
- Sleeve border fragments. Light blue silk satin, embroidered with multicolored "hundred children" design. Women with groups of children playing games in outdoor scenes. a,b each have different scenes. a,b each stamped "Made in China". Hems glued later. Length: 68 cm; width: 13 cm each. China Background: silk; satin weave. Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk; satin stitch figures, Chinese knot landscape, couching. Part of a woman's robe worn on special occasions. Mid 19th century Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact) Williams; Outlines of Chinese Symbolism, pp. 42
- Donor:
- Arlene Miller Rolkin
- Collection place:
- China
- Culture or time period:
- Chinese
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Sleeve borders
- Function:
- 2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
- Production date:
- Mid 19th century
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
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- Legacy documentation:
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