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)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragments, accession number 9-13542a,b, described as 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
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sleeve border fragments, accession number 9-13542a,b, described as 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

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