About This Artwork

Japan

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

Silk, plain weave; resist dyed and painted (yuzenzome); impressed surface pattern; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk in laidwork and couching
27.95 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Gift of Ralph E. Hays in memory of Mary Van Artsdalen Hays, 2004.1101