Embroidered sleeve bands

Chinese

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

circa 1800-1900

This finely embroidered pair of sleeve bands makes an excellent addition to Bristol's existing collection of Chinese dress and accessories. The designs are appropriate for summer with blooming lotuses symbolic of the season, as well as birds and dragonflies. Petals and leaves are filled in with minute seed-stitch knots, characteristic of high quality Chinese embroidery of the late 18th and 19th centuries.

• Medium: silk
• Dimensions: each height: 52cm
• ArtFunded in: 2009
• Bequeathed by Alan Ladd through The Art Fund

Provenance

Alan Ladd.

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