Textile

Museum number:
9-21615
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090021615
Alternate number:
MVC-0577 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Untailored P’u ‘fu coat for 2nd rank civil official: Two joined panels; dark brown, gauze textile decorated w/ golden pheasant rank badges in tent-stitch w/ laid gold scrolls and border edging on figured gauze and paired dragon roundels. Made up of two panels joined at center.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dragons
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
Man’s garment
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 314 centimeters and width 95.3 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21615, described as Untailored P’u ‘fu coat for 2nd rank civil official: Two joined panels; dark brown, gauze textile decorated w/ golden pheasant rank badges in tent-stitch w/ laid gold scrolls and border edging on figured gauze and paired dragon roundels. Made up of two panels joined at center.

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