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Textile sample
Japanese
Late Edo or early Meiji era
mid-19th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk damask, hand drawn paste resist-dyed and painted (yûzen), embroidered (shishû)
Dimensions
23.5 x 15.7 cm (9 1/4 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number98.339
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionTextile sample with design of chrysanthemum and sparrow in gold, green, brown, gray and white, created by the yûzen technique, with white silk embroidered accents (shishû) on a dark blue damask ground with repeating crane and basket pattern.
ProvenanceGift to MFA in August, 1898