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Jacket

Object Number:2003-38-35
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Zhuang
Provenience: Indochina
Section:Asian
Materials:Metal
Silk
Cotton
Technique:Sewn
Dyed
Embroidered
Woven
Height: 58.5 cm
Width: 141.5 cm
Credit Line:Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number:1900.1.1320 - Other Number

Description

Black cotton women's jacket with a big blue lining, red rounded cotton collar and white cotton front opening decorated with metal triangles and studs. Four metal buckles are sewn on top front opening with two sleeves: outer has embroidered cuff, inner has bands of black sewn to blue brocaded cotton. The bottom of the jacket is bound with ribbon woven in white, purple, and green above which are sewn two rows of metal triangles.

Bibliography:

[Article] Lang, Stephen A., and White, Joyce C. 2008. "The Asian Section". Arts of Asia. Kowloon. Arts of Asia Publications, Ltd. Vol. 38. no. 5. pg. 96-110 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pg. 109, Fig. 59View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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