A Collection of Antique Chinese Textiles

Collection includes: a lady's jacket, lined with light blue silk, borders to the sleeves, neck, and lower hem with finely embroidered Buddhist treasure motifs created with gold polychrome silk and gold wrapped thread (31 x 72 in.)(stains, soil to surface; some fading to color; tears and separation to silk around the collar; missing button at the collar and at lower left side), a lady's skirt (37 x 56 in.)(toning and some staining to wide waist; lower portion of skirt is in very good condition with only some scattered stitch loss; blue silk interior lining with some worm holes and tears along the edges), a pair of girl's shoes (5 1/2 x 2 x 4 in.)(some losses to lower ribbon and fabric around the heel; wear and soil with some fading to fabric), and a hat with tassel (2 1/2 x 9 x 9 in.)(some scattered spots to discoloration; some wear to tassels; some wormholes to sides of the hat).

From the Historic Collection of Limestone University, Gaffney, South Carolina
Limestone College, now Limestone University, was founded in 1845 in Gaffney, South Carolina, by English-born Baptist minister Dr. Thomas Curtis and his son William. Originally established as the Limestone Springs Female High School, it was among the first women’s colleges in the nation and the very first in the state. The institution found its early roots in a former resort hotel near healing springs, later struggling due to the Civil War and Reconstruction. It revived in 1881 as the Cooper‑Limestone Institute, thanks to benefaction from industrialist Peter Cooper, and adopted the name Limestone College.