About This Artwork

Japan

Dyer’s Sample, Meiji period (1868–1912), 1870/1900

Silk, plain weave; resist dyed and painted (yuzenzome); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped silk, laidwork and couching
20.75 x 33.1 cm (8 1/4 x 13 in.)
Gift of Ralph E. Hays in memory of Mary Van Artsdalen Hays, 2004.1086