Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)

Place

Japan (Object made for)

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Made 1797

Medium

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts Lining: Bast fiber, plain weave; inscribed with India ink (sumi)

Dimensions

67 × 67.3 cm (26 3/8 × 26 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

2004.1061

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