Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.
View TutorialLog In to see more items.
A pair of boots high enough to cover the wearer’s calf, with very thick white soles curved upwards at the front. The foot is demarcated from the calf with a line of silver sequins. The sides of the boots are decorated with large images of birds facing downwards, the birds and their details outlined in silver, and the images filled in with cream coloured sequins. There are long loops of fabric attached to the tops of the boots at the centre front.
A pair of flat-soled shoes made of white fabric heavily decorated with silver sequins. There is an image of a butterfly or moth made of sequins and edged with white fur over the toes.
A pair of flat-soled shoes made of dark blue-green fabric decorated with white sequins in a geometric Greek key design. Over the toes are long tassels of shiny white thread, one of which is bound with red thread.
A pair of shoes made of shiny white fabric with large padded bulbous protrusions over the toes and slightly elevated soles. The shoes are decorated with lines of purple and gold sequins ending in curlicues at the front.
A pair of boots high enough to cover the wearer’s calf, with very thick white soles curved upwards at the front. They are solidly covered with sequins that have been sewn onto the surface cloth. The foot is demarcated from the calf with red piping, and there are vertical lines of piping at the front at back. The sequins are patterned in radiating stripes on the foot portion of the boots, while above the piping there is a dragon curling towards the bottom of the boot and then facing upwards towards a red disc. The sequins are multi-coloured against a background of rich blue-green.
Curtain of pink synthetic fabric sewn to form an arch-shape with horizontal upper edge of white synthetic fabric to which seven orange-pink Chinese characters are applied with sequins. There is a layer of filmy pink synthetic fabric over this. At the centre of the curtain set are appliquéd three discs of pink silk, each with a Chinese character in black cloth. The lower edge of the arch-shaped curtain has a row of dark pink fringe. Behind the arch is a rectangular panel, and there are curved vertical panels with cotton backing attached to the sides. All are decorated with phoenixes, executed in dark pink, gold, and silver sequins.
Vertically rectangular postcard held into place on a brown card by a purple ribbon at each corner. The image depicts five different figures depicting a scene in which a crab-faced figure is watching an hour-glass-faced figure on top of a monkey-faced figure in front of him in the lower left corner while two more figures are on top of the green hill in the upper right corner.
Vertically rectangular postcard held into place on a blue card by a purple ribbon at each corner. The image depicts a fox in a green boat with blue waves in the lower left corner and a rabbit in a brown vessel on blue waves in the upper right corner with a red sun behind.
Vertically rectangular postcard held into place on a blue card by a purple ribbon at each corner. The image depicts a Samurai facing to the right side with a red sword pointing upward toward the upper right corner.
Vertically rectangular postcard held into place on a blue card by a purple ribbon at each corner. The image depicts a human climbing a black tree that has white blossoms in a red mist.