logo
CLOSED MONDAYS

Skirt

Object Number:2003-40-5
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: China
Fuzhou
Section:Asian
Materials:Silk
Cotton
Metal
Technique:Woven
Sewn
Embroidered
Length: 94 cm
Width: 115.5 cm
Credit Line:Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number:1918.2.1 - Other Number

Description

A wrap-around skirt woven of silk, consisting of 2 panels of brocaded red silk buttoned at the waistband of undyed cotton with 3 frogs, with applicaid designs and tapes in green, grey, red, blue, white and black on right side of each panel, with fine pleats along side at left. Bordered at hem with same tapes of green, grey, red, blue, white, and black. The bottom corners of each front panel have an intricate design of metalic threads and colors.

You may also be interested in these objects:


Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.