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
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Description
This exquisitely embroidered and elegantly mounted scroll was probably based on an original painting. There is a photograph of a very similar scroll in a sales album belonging to the leading Kyoto silk manufacturer Iida Shinshichi (Takashimaya). In front of the scroll is displayed an award certificate from a Kyoto Art Craft exhibition in 1894. Perhaps the scroll exhibited here was also made in the mid-1890s. (Exhibition number 13)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (probable place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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c. 1895
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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probably Iida Shinshichi (established 1831)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed grey, and embroidered with coloured silk; gold, green, and dark-gold silk brocade mount with paper backing; wooden rod
- Dimensions
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mount 197.5 x 89 cm (height x width)
textile 137.5 x 64 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.20
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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. 13 p. 106, p. 27, title page & p. 106
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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