Not currently on display at the V&A

Length of Cotton

20th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A small rectangle of cotton, fringed along the two short edges, with a picture of a goat suckling her baby resisted in white and light blue against a dark blue background.
The resisting substance is likely to have been wax, as used by non-Han people living in southwestern China.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Resist-dyed cotton
Brief description
Length of cotton, light blue and white motif resist dyed on a dark blue cotton ground, China, 20th century
Physical description
A small rectangle of cotton, fringed along the two short edges, with a picture of a goat suckling her baby resisted in white and light blue against a dark blue background.
The resisting substance is likely to have been wax, as used by non-Han people living in southwestern China.
Dimensions
  • Length: 22.5cm
  • Width: 17cm
Credit line
Addis Bequest
Object history
These blue and white cotton pieces (FE.97 to O-1983) were loosely wrapped in paper from the Peking Arts and Crafts Shop and it may be that all of them were purchased there rather than in the areas of manufacture.

Registered File number 1965/3344.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
FE.97G-1983

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2000
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