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Han-Chinese woman's domestic skirt (qun)
Chinese
late 19th century
Object Place: China
Medium/Technique
Silk embroidered with piled silks and couched gold-wrapped threads
Dimensions
86 x 68 cm (33 7/8 x 26 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.537
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionThin and papery deep yellow silk. The two panels of hoho birds and flowers are alike in design, but the colored silks, red, blues, greens, soft yellows and white and the gold thread are used differently. On the plants are separate flowers and butterflies. Trimmed with black satin.
ProvenanceTransferred from Asiatic Dept. to Textiles.