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Textile fragment

Japanese
Edo period
19th century
Object Place: Japan

Medium/Technique Silk, gilt paper strips; twill-weave ground with supplementary weft patterning
Dimensions Height x width: 35 x 3.5 cm (13 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Everett Fund
Accession Number84.427
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionTextile fragment with design of dragon roundels and interlocking circles in gilt paper strip supplementary weft patterning on a natural twill-weave silk ground.
Provenance84.417-84.552 were purchased for $150 of Louis Wertheimer at the Foreign Fair by the MFA on January 7, 1884