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
Trees beside a stream in autumn
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Description
This Western-style landscape captures the atmosphere of the autumn sunset reflected in the woodland stream. The panel carries a label on the back of the Kobe framing company Matsunaga & Co. Many art textile pieces appear to have been framed in Kobe before being shipped overseas from its port. (Exhibition number 37)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Hyōgo prefecture › Kobe (Motomachi) (possible place of creation)Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (possible place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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early 20th century
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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Matsunaga & Company (active late 19th century - early 20th century) (manufacturer)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed, and embroidered with coloured silk; black wood frame
- Dimensions
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frame 43 x 58 x 4.7 cm (height x width x depth)
textile 60 x 75.5 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.
- LI1956.18
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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. 37 p. 156, illus. p. 156
Past Exhibition
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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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