Istan
Trousers
1800-1900 (made)
1800-1900 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Woman's trousers (istan) of green cotton damask. The ends are faced with blue-green silk embroidered in chain-stitch (machine) with floral patterns in yellow and various shades of red.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Istan (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Cotton damask, applied with embroidered silk damask |
| Brief description | Woman's trousers (istan), cotton damask applied with embroidered silk damask, Khotan (Hetian), Xinjiang, China, 1800-1900 |
| Physical description | Woman's trousers (istan) of green cotton damask. The ends are faced with blue-green silk embroidered in chain-stitch (machine) with floral patterns in yellow and various shades of red. |
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| Gallery label | TROUSERS
Cotton damask, the ends faced with floral patterns in silk embroidery.
Part of a woman's costume.
Khotan; 19th century.
T.31B-1932
Given by Major George Sherriff OBE
As the embroideries were often more durable than the trousers and less prone to wear, they were cut off and re-used when the trousers wore out. |
| Credit line | Given by Captain George Sherriff |
| Object history | The green trousers came into the Museum as part of a set with a magenta pink coat, blue tunic, red waistcoat, scarlet leather leggings, a tasselled hat and silver and coral plait decorations. George Sherriff (1898-1967), the renowned plant hunter who donated them to the Museum, recorded that he acquired them in Khotan, a town in today's Xinjiang Region of China. (Registered File number 1898/1932) |
| Production | From the Khotan region (modern Hetian/Hotan) |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Ward, Amada. 'Gifts from Xinjiang', in Orientations, August, 1988, Fig. 2, pp. 18-22. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.31B-1932 |
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| Record created | September 30, 2010 |
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