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Silk hanging or tablecloth with pearl, stylized clouds, and four kirin, or horned creatures
- loan
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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, and embroidered with coloured silk (partly applied over cotton wadding), paper-backed gold foil wrapped around a silk or cotton core, twisted paper, and threads wrapped around twisted paper; cotton border, dyed dark-blue
- Dimensions
- 157 x 154.5 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
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textile › cloth › table-cloth
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.31
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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. 7 p. 96, illus. p. 96
Location
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- returned to owner
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