Not currently on display at the V&A

Textile

ca. 1873 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Piece of white cotton cloth


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Woven cotton
Brief description
Textile, white cotton, from Shache (Yarkand), China, ca. 1873
Physical description
Piece of white cotton cloth
Object history
Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. Part of an ethnological collection acquired by Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth from Yarkand (Shache in Chinese) in 1873-4.
Collection
Accession number
2049(IS)

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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