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Mantle of a bridal costume
Jacket, part of bridal costume
Orange jacket as part of a bridal costume (in China called 'mang ao' = dragon jacket). This color orange was popular among Peranakan Chinese and was called 'kuning pinang masak', or the yellow color of a ripe betel nut.The jacket has several embroidered motifs: a dragon, Chinese phoenixes, peonies, clouds, mountains and waves.The depiction of a dragon and a Chinese phoenix together represents mari…
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Type of item
- jas ; bruidskostuum ( onderdeel)
Date
- 1900~
Medium
- Material: silk
- silk (silkworm material)
- Silk
Type of item
- jas ; bruidskostuum ( onderdeel)
Date
- 1900~
Medium
- Material: silk
- silk (silkworm material)
- Silk
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1895/1905
Provenance
- 2013-06-14
- Schenking
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/957114
Format
- Technique: embroidery
- embroidering
- Embroidery
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- orange
- wax
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z
Keywords (provided by the community)
- costume (mode of fashion)
- phoenixes
- People's Republic of China
- China
- fenghuang
- Chinese people
- costume
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