Trouser End
19th century (made)
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Trouser end of woven cotton, embroidered in chain-stitch with peonies in blue and red and with a broad border of wave pattern in blue, red and yellow.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Woven cotton, embroidered with coloured silks in chain-stitch |
| Brief description | Trouser end, cotton with embroidery in coloured silks, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (autonomous region), China, Qing dynasty, 19th century. Textile |
| Physical description | Trouser end of woven cotton, embroidered in chain-stitch with peonies in blue and red and with a broad border of wave pattern in blue, red and yellow. |
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| Gallery label | Trouser legs.
Cotton embroidered in coloured silks with peonies and butterflies.
The design's ground recalls the wave-ornament of Chinese art.
Xinjiang; 19th century. |
| Credit line | Given by Colonel Robert A. Lyall |
| Object history | Registered File number 1927/6249. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Ward, Amada. 'Gifts from Xinjiang', in Orientations, August, 1988, Fig. 2, pp. 18-22. |
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| Accession number | T.238-1927 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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