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
Peacocks with paulownia, cherry, magnolia, and peonies
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Description
This tapestry is identical to one of a set of panels made by the Kawashima Textile Company and donated by the Japanese government to the Hague Peace Palace in 1913. The Kyoto painter Kikuchi Hōbun (1862-1918) took two years to prepare the designs and thirty weavers worked for over three years to complete the set. The origins of this particular piece, however, remain a mystery. (Exhibition number 43)
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Flowers and One Hundred Birds in Late Spring and Early Summer
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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after 1908
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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Kikuchi Hōbun (1862 - 1918) (designer)Kawashima Textile Company (active c. 1908)Kawashima Jinbei II (1853 - 1910)Kawashima Jinbei III (1879 - 1918)
- Material and technique
- silk and gold thread, tapestry woven; metal hanging fittings
- Dimensions
- 230 x 362 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent from a private collection.
- Accession no.
- LI1982.1
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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. 43 pp. 172-174, pp. 36 & 70, illus. pp. 82-83, 171-172 & 174-177
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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