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Japanese
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Brocade
Dimensions
Height x width (a): 6.5 x 16.5 cm (2 9/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Height x width (b): 4 1/2 x 8 7/16 in. (11.5 x 21.5 cm)
Height x width (b): 4 1/2 x 8 7/16 in. (11.5 x 21.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth Roome Luquer in memory of her Grandfather, General Charles Roome
Accession Number84.465
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionWhite silk ground on which is woven a design of groups of deep violet clouds forming diamonds and broken at intervals by circles of dragons, woven with white and light red silk. In one corner of a is what is doubtless part of a yellow imperial chrysanthemum. 84.417-84.553 were bought for $150,000 of Louis Wertheimer at the Foreign Fair, Jan. 7, 1884.
ProvenancePurchased at the Foreign Fair from Louis Wertheimer by the MFA on January 7, 1884