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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
see (1)-
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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