Textile fragment

Museum number:
9-12097
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2965
Description:
Textile fragment; part of a sari; plum coloured Chinese silk gauze embroidered in white silk; motifs are birds, floral and geometric worked in satin stitch; L. 32 cm., W. 9.5 cm.; silk, handwoven, and embroidered; part of the lower edge and end piece of a sari made in China especially for Parsi customers in India; made by Chinese artisans, exported to India by Parsi merchants in China.
Donor:
Piroja Narielwala
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Culture or time period:
Parsi
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions) and Textile samples
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-12097, described as Textile fragment; part of a sari; plum coloured Chinese silk gauze embroidered in white silk; motifs are birds, floral and geometric worked in satin stitch; L. 32 cm., W. 9.5 cm.; silk, handwoven, and embroidered; part of the lower edge and end piece of a sari made in China especially for Parsi customers in India; made by Chinese artisans, exported to India by Parsi merchants in China.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-12097, described as Textile fragment; part of a sari; plum coloured Chinese silk gauze embroidered in white silk; motifs are birds, floral and geometric worked in satin stitch; L. 32 cm., W. 9.5 cm.; silk, handwoven, and embroidered; part of the lower edge and end piece of a sari made in China especially for Parsi customers in India; made by Chinese artisans, exported to India by Parsi merchants in China.

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