Trousers

2003-38-123

From: China | Cochin (China)

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 2003-38-123
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Yao (Asian culture)
Provenience China | Cochin (China)
Section Asian
Materials Cotton | Silk
Technique Woven | Hand-Sewn | Embroidered | Dyed
Description

Pair of woven, indigo-dyed, hand-sewn woman's wide-legged trousers. Distinguished by four inch wide waist band, and two 15" x 10" (25.5 cm x 18.0 cm) panels inserted on bottom front of leg of embroidered purple, white, yellow silk thread in star-Buddhist sun symbol pattern. Hemmed with red and white thin braided cord.

Length 76.5 cm
Width 50 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.1135 - Other Number

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