- Date
- 1933 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0139 a,b
- Description
- A white Chinese shawl contained in a square, shallow cardboard box. (a) shawl, small, square white silk with silk embroidered peacock at centre under bower of blossoms, and large spray of flowers with spikey leaves at each corner, fringed all around with pastel colours, green, orange blue, pink, wh…
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- Title
- Shawl
- Date
- 1933 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 60.5 x 62.4 cm
- Description
- A white Chinese shawl contained in a square, shallow cardboard box. (a) shawl, small, square white silk with silk embroidered peacock at centre under bower of blossoms, and large spray of flowers with spikey leaves at each corner, fringed all around with pastel colours, green, orange blue, pink, white, of silk thread which has been knotted into a mesh net for 3 cm then tied into a tassel fringe. Small paper label stuck to middle printed "CHINA" in red, with "T103" handwritten over in blue ink.(b) box,square, shallow, and orange with wallpaper pattern of flowers around sides. Top covered with large illustration of Chinese woman wearing a similar shawl. Printed on picture, "Shu Ying Loong & Co. Oldest establishin No. 43 Kong Yet Road, C. Canton, China makers wholesalers, etc. Double Dragons brand, in square logo with dragons ", and Chinese characters printed in lower left corner. Also contains pink piece of paper with Chinese writing and the number "T103".
- Subject
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0139 a,b
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