Browse: 10610 objects
Two dragons, each with a pearl of wisdom
- loan
-
Description
Unlike the dragons of Western mythology, in Asia the dragon is associated with wealth and good fortune. Dragons were a popular motif in Japanese art and their exotic unfamiliarity appealed to Western customers enthralled by the notion of the mysterious Eastern land of Japan. Note the way the dragons’ scaly bodies and faces are worked in couched metallic thread, applied over cotton wadding and rolled paper to give a three dimensional effect. (Exhibition number 3)
-
Details
- Associated place
-
Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (probable place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
-
late 19th century
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed, and embroidered with gold thread (applied over cotton wadding and rolled paper), coloured silk, coloured cotton, flat silk, silk-wrapped paper cord, gold-wrapped paper cord, and silver-wrapped thread; silk brocade border in light- and dark-brown
- Dimensions
- 217.5 x 152 cm (height x width)
- Material index
-
organic › animal › animal product › silk,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
-
dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.33
-
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. 2 p. 89, illus. p. 89
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)
Location
-
- returned to owner
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum