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Egrets on a riverbank with irises, water lilies, and chrysanthemums
- 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 - early 20th century
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed, and embroidered with coloured silk (partly applied over cotton wadding), flat silk, and rolled paper cord; brown silk brocade border
- Dimensions
- 209 x 150 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.
- LI1956.32
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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. 17 p. 110, illus. pp. 87 & 110-111
Location
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- returned to owner
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