Basketry cap

Museum number:

9-21241a,b

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Alternate number:

1 - 11 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.4697

Object count:

2

Description:

a: little boy’s black satin cap. Blue and white lining with off-lozenge-shape pattern. Front center: flower basket (appliqued machine embroidery) over lace strips symbolizing rocks and water. Top right and left: trifoils of bead-chains (clouds?) flanking one paillette star. Red pompom and triangular constellation in star-studded sky represent top rank in imperial examinations. b: bag of beads that have fallen off cap.

Donor:

Ilse Martin Fang

Collection place:

Peking, Beijing province, China

Verbatim coll. place:

China. Given to Ilse Fang in Peking by Erich Wolters, antique dealer.

Culture or time period:

Chinese

Collector:

Ilse Martin Fang

Collection date:

1943

Materials:

Satin

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Basketry (object genre), Caps (headgear), Embroidery (visual works), and Lace (needlework)

Function:

2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes

Production date:

ca. 1900

Accession date:

December 15, 1998

Context of use:

Cap, little boy’s. c 1900.

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

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