Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)Discover exquisite embroideries, dyed silk and velvet panels, tapestries, and appliqué works
Ocelot carrying a dead macaw in a rocky landscape
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Description
This panel is presumably based on a European painting or print. Textiles depicting European scenes, including hunting scenes and animals in the style of Landseer, were popular among foreign customers at this time. This panel, by the Kyoto silk manufacturer Nishimura Sōzaemon, is worked in very fine and lustrous silk thread that expresses beautifully the silky fur of the ocelot and the glossy feathers of the macaw. (Exhibition number 31)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto › Muromachi Suji (place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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early 20th century
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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Nishimura Sōzaemon (established c. 1670)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed brown, and embroidered with coloured silk; wood, silk, and metal frame
- Dimensions
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frame 68.5 x 89.2 x 6.6 cm (height x width x depth)
textile 46.8 x 66.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.1
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 31 p. 145, illus. pp. 145-147
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)
Location
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- returned to owner
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