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Nest of chicks in a lantern surrounded by doves
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Description
This panel shows doves around a nest built inside a bronze lantern that hangs from a flowering cherry tree. The depiction of petals, leaves, bark, and feathers is highly naturalistic. This panel and its pair [LI1956.12.b] were perhaps originally part of a set of four representing the four seasons. (Exhibition number 10)
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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, satin woven, dyed black, and embroidered with flat silk, and coloured silk partly applied over cotton wadding
- Dimensions
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frame 148.5 x 72.6 x 5.1 cm (height x width x depth)
textile 133.3 x 57.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
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dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.12.1
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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. 10 p. 101, illus. pp. 7, 101-102
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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