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Nest of chicks in a lantern surrounded by doves

  • loan
  • 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)

  • Details

    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Kyoto (probable place of creation)
    Europe (original location)
    Date
    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
    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
    silk,
    silk,
    Technique index
    dyed,
    dyed,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
    Accession no.
    LI1956.12.1
  • 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

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