Textile

Museum number:
9-13533
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090013533
Accession number:
Acc.3360
Description:
Textile Rectangle of white silk gauze mesh, embroidered in two panels with Petit Point multicolored garden scenes. The two panels are mirror images. Paper glued along lower edge of mesh. Length: 92 cm; width: 37 cm. Embroidered panels: Length: 47 cm; width: 9 cm. China, att. Background: silk, gauze weave Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk, petit point, brick stitch, couching Never used. Possibly intended as sleeve borders. Late 19th century Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact)
Donor:
Arlene Miller Rolkin
Collection place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Production date:
Late 19th century
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-13533, described as Textile Rectangle of white silk gauze mesh, embroidered in two panels with Petit Point multicolored garden scenes. The two panels are mirror images. Paper glued along lower edge of mesh. Length: 92 cm; width: 37 cm. Embroidered panels: Length: 47 cm; width: 9 cm. China, att. Background: silk, gauze weave Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk, petit point, brick stitch, couching Never used. Possibly intended as sleeve borders. Late 19th century Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-13533, described as Textile Rectangle of white silk gauze mesh, embroidered in two panels with Petit Point multicolored garden scenes. The two panels are mirror images. Paper glued along lower edge of mesh. Length: 92 cm; width: 37 cm. Embroidered panels: Length: 47 cm; width: 9 cm. China, att. Background: silk, gauze weave Pattern area: untwisted silk, gold wrapped silk, petit point, brick stitch, couching Never used. Possibly intended as sleeve borders. Late 19th century Mary V. Hays; S.F., Ca. (personal contact)

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