Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)Discover exquisite embroideries, dyed silk and velvet panels, tapestries, and appliqué works
Peacock and peahen with cherry blossom and peonies
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Description
This spectacular hanging depicts a peacock perched in a flowering ornamental cherry tree, with a peahen standing beneath, surrounded by peonies. The cherry shown is the double-petalled yaezakura, which was extremely popular and grown all over Japan during the early Meiji period. Sumiyama was a smallscale Kyoto producer of ornamental textiles. Little is yet known as about the designer Miki, or indeed about most of the designers of Meiji ornamental textiles. (Exhibition number 24)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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c. 1900
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed, and embroidered with coloured silk and paper-backed gold foil wrapped around a silk or cotton core (both partly applied over cotton wadding) and flat silk; silk brocade border in light- and dark-brown
- Dimensions
- 300 x 199 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.37
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 24 p. 134, p. 31, illus. pp. 134-135
Past Exhibition
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Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)
Location
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- returned to owner
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