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A work made of mount and inner mount: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts; scroll panel: silk and cotton, satin weave; embroidered with silk in chinese knot, satin, single satin, and stem stitches; laidwork and couching; tying tape: cotton, plain weave.
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  • A work made of mount and inner mount: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts; scroll panel: silk and cotton, satin weave; embroidered with silk in chinese knot, satin, single satin, and stem stitches; laidwork and couching; tying tape: cotton, plain weave.

Date:

Meiji period (1868–1912), c. 1880

Artist:

Japan

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Scroll

Place

Japan (Object made in:)

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Made 1870–1890

Medium

Mount and inner mount: Silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts; scroll panel: silk and cotton, satin weave; embroidered with silk in Chinese knot, satin, single satin, and stem stitches; laidwork and couching; tying tape: cotton, plain weave

Dimensions

181.7 × 62.6 cm (71 1/2 × 24 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the James D. Tigerman Estate

Reference Number

2004.945

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