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-and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk in laidwork and couching
25.1 x 31.8 cm (9 7/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
Gift of Ralph E. Hays in memory of Mary Van Artsdalen Hays, 2004.1093