Skirt

Museum number:
9-21611
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0573 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Skirt ; length: 87.0 cm waist to hem; width: 124.5 cm overlap, 126.5 cm underlap; Imperial Era; cream silk ground with wide central panel, the lower ⅓ of which is decorated with a 5-toed dragon in gold, and waves, clouds, flowers and fire patterns in blue, red, pink, white, and pale blue. Panel is bordered by bands of blue flowers on a black ground and black silk tape. Skirt is pleated in deep pleats, the lower ⅓ of which are decorated with embroidered phoenix birds, or dragons, waves. clouds, and flowers, and edged with tapes embroidered with blue flowers. Skirt is attached to a band of light brown cotton fabric.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Phoenixes and Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
woman’s garment
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 87 centimeters and width 124.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 9-21611, described as Skirt ; length: 87.0 cm waist to hem; width: 124.5 cm overlap, 126.5 cm underlap; Imperial Era; cream silk ground with wide central panel, the lower ⅓ of which is decorated with a 5-toed dragon in gold, and waves, clouds, flowers and fire patterns in blue, red, pink, white, and pale blue. Panel is bordered by bands of blue flowers on a black ground and black silk tape. Skirt is pleated in deep pleats, the lower ⅓ of which are decorated with embroidered phoenix birds, or dragons, waves. clouds, and flowers, and edged with tapes embroidered with blue flowers. Skirt is attached to a band of light brown cotton fabric.

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