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Kesa

A work made of silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lining: silk, 5:1 twill damask weave.

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  • A work made of silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lining: silk, 5:1 twill damask weave.

Date:

1900/10, Meiji period (1868–1912)

Artist:

Japan

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Kesa

Place

Japan (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1900–1910

Medium

Silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lining: silk, 5:1 twill damask weave

Dimensions

113.6 × 187.3 cm (44 3/4 × 73 3/4 in.); Repeat: 21.4 × 187.3 cm (44 3/4 × 73 3/4 in.); Lining repeat: 19 × 11.5 cm (7 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph E. Hays in memory of Mary Van Artsdalen Hays

Reference Number

2004.994

Extended information about this artwork

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