Jacket

2003-38-88

From: China | Shan State

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 2003-38-88
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience China | Shan State
Section Asian
Materials Cotton | Silk
Technique Woven | Dyed | Sewn | Ikat
Description

Unfitted jacket with long sleeves, chest panels of woven cotton, piece-dyed blue; sleeves form by eleven consecutive bands of woven material, edge-sewn together; piece-dyed red cotton bands prominent at shoulder and wrist; bands of silk ikat and cotton ikat at elbows; back formed by consecutive horizontal bands of woven material, edge-sewn together; interior back is of cotton ikat bands, but exterior has broad bands of silk ikat sewn over the cotton, as well as broad bands of piece-dyed silk sewn over cotton ikat.

Length 52 cm
Width 140 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.1159 - Other Number

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