Flag

Museum number:
7-6662
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070006662
Alternate number:
902 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.09
Object count:
1
Description:
Flag. Cotton, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Twill weave, embroidered. Staff is covered with textile. Field is padded. White ground, gold, green, blue and yellow embroidery. Floral motives. Sewn through embroidery. Flag Fan of XVIC form and in the style of Venice. The material of shich the fan is made is an old Turkish Tomb Towel embroidered in darning stitch and laid gold work. 18 inch staff, 9½ by 11½ field.
Donor:
Design (UC Berkeley) and Katherine Hooker
Collection place:
Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
ITALY: Venice
Culture or time period:
Italian
Materials:
Metal and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Flags
Function:
3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Dimensions:
length 18 inches and width 10 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Flag, accession number 7-6662, described as Flag. Cotton, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Twill weave, embroidered. Staff is covered with textile. Field is padded. White ground, gold, green, blue and yellow embroidery. Floral motives. Sewn through embroidery. Flag Fan of XVIC form and in the style of Venice. The material of shich the fan is made is an old Turkish Tomb Towel embroidered in darning stitch and laid gold work. 18 inch staff, 9½ by 11½ field.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Flag, accession number 7-6662, described as Flag. Cotton, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Twill weave, embroidered. Staff is covered with textile. Field is padded. White ground, gold, green, blue and yellow embroidery. Floral motives. Sewn through embroidery. Flag Fan of XVIC form and in the style of Venice. The material of shich the fan is made is an old Turkish Tomb Towel embroidered in darning stitch and laid gold work. 18 inch staff, 9½ by 11½ field.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Flag, accession number 7-6662, described as Flag. Cotton, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Twill weave, embroidered. Staff is covered with textile. Field is padded. White ground, gold, green, blue and yellow embroidery. Floral motives. Sewn through embroidery. Flag Fan of XVIC form and in the style of Venice. The material of shich the fan is made is an old Turkish Tomb Towel embroidered in darning stitch and laid gold work. 18 inch staff, 9½ by 11½ field.

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