Coin purse

Museum number:
9-15400
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015400
Alternate number:
1765 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.05
Description:
Coin purse. Silk, cotton, paper, gilt paper wrapped yarns. Satin weave; plain weave lining; gauze weave panels, embroidered tent stitch; braid binding. Blue; light red lining; varicolored designs on white panels; blue and white braid. Floral motives. 10½ inches by 4 inches.
Donor:
Anita Day Symmes Blake, Anson Stiles Blake, and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
CHINA
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Materials:
Metal, Metal (silk embroidery, braid, metal), and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coin purses and Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes and 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 4 inches and length 7 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Coin purse, accession number 9-15400, described as Coin purse. Silk, cotton, paper, gilt paper wrapped yarns. Satin weave; plain weave lining; gauze weave panels, embroidered tent stitch; braid binding. Blue; light red lining; varicolored designs on white panels; blue and white braid. Floral motives. 10½ inches by 4 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin purse, accession number 9-15400, described as Coin purse. Silk, cotton, paper, gilt paper wrapped yarns. Satin weave; plain weave lining; gauze weave panels, embroidered tent stitch; braid binding. Blue; light red lining; varicolored designs on white panels; blue and white braid. Floral motives. 10½ inches by 4 inches.

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