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Golden eagle on a snowy pine branch
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Description
Birds of prey were a popular subject of export textiles. This type of eagle, called a white-tailed eagle, lived in Hokkaidō, in the north of Japan. The design may have been taken from a photograph. A variety of different threads is used to create different textures on the feathers, snow, tree, and pine needles. (Exhibition number 14)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (probable place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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late 19th century
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed light-brown, and embroidered with coloured silk; wood and silk frame
- Dimensions
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frame 65.5 x 50.4 x 5 cm (height x width x depth)
textile 47.5 x 32.7 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 by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.6
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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. 14 p. 107, illus. p. 107
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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