Shawl

Museum number:
9-22724
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090022724
Alternate number:
15S (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4092
Description:
brown silk crepe shawl, embroidered with multi-colored flowers and green/brown leaves and stems around all 4 borders. empty center, with sparse brown, hand knotted fringe on all 4 edges.
Donor:
(anonymous)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Asia, China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alice Elizabeth Fitzhugh
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works), Shawls, and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
October 13, 1985
Context of use:
clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
fringe— length 15 centimeters, width 159 centimeters, and height 151 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-22724, described as brown silk crepe shawl, embroidered with multi-colored flowers and green/brown leaves and stems around all 4 borders. empty center, with sparse brown, hand knotted fringe on all 4 edges.

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