19th century
Mrs. Charles H. Haskins, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1927
Red wool ground with blue wool borders, the appliqué decoration in fabrics of varied color stitched in place, the tassels sewn along the lower edge of the bottom border, the banner backed with medium-blue cotton cloth
19th centuryTibetanSatin with designs in slit tapestry weave (“kesi”)
19th centuryChineseSilk
18th-19th centuryChineseWarps: undyed white wool. Wefts: variable, including outlining wefts, eccentric wefts. Weft colors: light red, dark red, red-brown, purple (made of red and blue), light blue (abrashed), green, dark olive green, dark blue. Whites are wool and cotton combined. The rest are wool.
19th centuryTurkishPolychrome silk-floss embroidery in satin stitch on a dark blue silk damask ground and gold thread border
19th centuryKoreanCompound weave brown silk with supplementary gold wefts; selected motifs embroidered in polychrome silk threads
19th centuryJapaneseSilk in 'kesi' tapestry weave
19th centuryChineseHeavy blue satin with gold brocade
19th centuryChinese