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Textile fragment from a Noh costume
Date:
early 18th century
Location:
Not on display
Century:
Media:
Silk
Dimensions:
25.5 x 18.5 cm (10 1/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Department:
Object Type:
Country:
Continent:
Asia
Accession Number:
54687.7
Acquisition Date:
1935-12-13
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Carlotta Mabury
Shaded ground of peach and blue with design of a fence and grasses. Compound weave 2/1 warp twill patterned with continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft floats, some of which are bound with the warps. Twill is patterned with long unbound floats resembling karakaori embroidery.
Contemporaneous Works “Art from the same century and country”
A Self-portrait of the artist Kuniyoshi Surrounded by Figures from his Sketches (18th–19th century)
