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Fragment (From a Temple Hanging)

A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 3:1 'z' twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.
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  • A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 3:1 'z' twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Date:

late Edo period (1789–1868), 1801/25

Artist:

Japan

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fragment (From a Temple Hanging)

Place

Japan (Object made in:)

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Made 1801–1825

Medium

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 3:1 'Z' twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

Dimensions

86.5 × 62.2 cm (34 × 24 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus

Reference Number

2002.178a

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