Skirt

2003-40-5

From: China | Fuzhou

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 2003-40-5
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience China | Fuzhou
Section Asian
Materials Silk | Cotton | Metal
Technique Woven | Sewn | Embroidered
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.

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

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