About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Title
- Fukusa (Gift Cover)
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Place
- Japan (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1926–1940
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Medium
- Mon side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome); Patterned side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome hikizome); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton, silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk and gold-leaf-over- lacquered-paper strips in individual back, satin, stem and straight stitches; couching; sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase); corner: silk-wrapped cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, knotted, re-plied fringe tassels
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Dimensions
- 45 × 39.6 cm (17 3/4 × 15 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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Reference Number
- 2001.240