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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

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

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