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Man's jacket

Man's jacket

  • Place of origin:

    Burma (made)

  • Date:

    early 1860s (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Cotton, embroidered and hand-quilted with yellow silk

  • Museum number:

    5631(IS)

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

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This tightly tailored white cotton jacket--with projecting side flaps over the hips and a rectangular panel behind the front opening--would have been worn by a fashionable Burmese man during the second half of the nineteenth century. Known as an ein-gyi this example is embroidered in a quilted yellow silk displaying the wave and twisted rope patterns typical of Burmese design. It would have formed an ensemble, as shown, when worn with a pah-soe (a voluminous wrapped and draped) skirt. (See (0798 (IS))

Physical description

Short and drawn in at the waist, flaring over the hips with side vents, long tight sleeves; it is open in front, and to the right side a breast flap is attached with a single button at the neck and left open at the waist. The decorative element of the body mainly consists of narrow verticle stripes of simple zig-zag acheik patterns; the bands round the neck, the arms at the shoulder and wrist, down the front and along the lower edge, are filled with a more elaborate rolling wave acheik patterns and twisted rope designs.

Place of Origin

Burma (made)

Date

early 1860s (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Cotton, embroidered and hand-quilted with yellow silk

Dimensions

Length: 58 cm shoulder to hem, Width: 35.5 cm across shoulders, Length: 57 cm sleeves

Object history note

Acquired from Burma by the Indian Museum in 1867.

Descriptive line

Burmese man's white cotton ein-gyi. Konbaung Dynasty (1752-1885). Quilted with acheik patterns in yellow silk.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Franklin & Swallow. Identifying with the Gods Hali Annual Edition: 1994. p.53, Fig.9
Rosemary Crill, Jennifer Wearden, Verity Wilson; Dress in Detail From Around The World; V&A Publications 2002; p. & ill. 96

Materials

Cotton; Silk thread

Techniques

Weaving; Quilting

Collection code

SSEA

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