Title
Cloth strip
Year/Period
1930s
Region
Malacca, Straits Settlements
Accession No.
2011-01829
Collection of
This cloth strip features embroidered peony flowers and phoenix motifs. Peonies symbolise spring, love, beauty and good fortune while the phoenix can represent beauty, grace, high virtue, the Empress and the bride. The auspicious symbols on this cloth strip suggest that it was possibly used in wedding ceremonies, such as the drapes for the traditional wedding bed.
