Textile fragment

Museum number:
9-12108
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2965
Description:
Textile fragment; Chinese embroidery; multicolored birds and flowers worked in silk thread on cream-colored satin ground; length 19.5 cm, width 14.5 cm. Fragment of an old sari. Exported from China 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 9-12108, described as Textile fragment; Chinese embroidery; multicolored birds and flowers worked in silk thread on cream-colored satin ground; length 19.5 cm, width 14.5 cm. Fragment of an old sari. Exported from China to India by Parsi merchants in China.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-12108, described as Textile fragment; Chinese embroidery; multicolored birds and flowers worked in silk thread on cream-colored satin ground; length 19.5 cm, width 14.5 cm. Fragment of an old sari. Exported from China to India by Parsi merchants in China.

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