Wedding Skirt

China

Qing dynasty (1644-1912), About 1900

  • Titles Wedding Skirt (Descriptive)
  • Artist China
  • Medium silk and gold wrapped thread
  • Dimensions 34 1/2 x 65 in.(width at bottom hem) (87.6 x 165.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Jackie Mazzara, AFI.291.2010
  • Work Type skirt
  • Classification Costume

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Slightly conical form with angular shoulder top with a dish mouth, supported on splayed footring; free of decoration, covered in whitish glaze; gritty footring from firing. Nice weight. Five glaze deposit spotting around shoulder.