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Screen with peacock and peahenfront, Cat. No. 21

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  • Screen with peacock and peahen (detail, Cat. No. 21)
  • Screen with peacock and peahen (detail, Cat. No. 21)
  • Screen with peacock and peahen (detail, Cat. No. 21)
  • Screen with peacock and peahen (detail, Cat. No. 21)
  • Screen with peacock and peahen (detail, Cat. No. 21)
  • Screen with peacock and peahen (detail, Cat. No. 21)
  • Screen with peacock and peahen (detail, Cat. No. 21)
  • Screen with peacock and peahen (detail, Cat. No. 21)
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Screen with peacock and peahen

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  • Description

    This screen was almost certainly made for an exhibition, with its spectacular design, outstanding needlework, and complementary frieze of peacock feathers on the base of the lacquer frame. With the gold feathers set off against the dark background, the entire screen looks like a piece of maki-e lacquer ware. It was probably made by the leading Kyoto silk manufacturer Nishimura Sōzaemon. (Exhibition number 21)

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Muromachi Suji (probable place of creation)
    Date
    1900 - c. 1910
    Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
    Artist/maker
    probably Nishimura Sōzaemon (established c. 1670)
    Material and technique
    silk, dyed black, and embroidered with coloured silk, flat silk, paper-backed gold foil wrapped around a silk or cotton core, and gold thread; wooden frame, covered in black lacquer, with maki-e lacquer decoration
    Dimensions
    open 172 x 264 x 3 cm max. (height x width x depth)
    closed 172 x 66.3 x 12.8 cm (height x width x depth)
    each panel 172 x 66.3 x 3 cm (height x width x depth)
    each panel, textile 139 x 58.3 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    silk,
    silk,
    gold,
    paper,
    cotton,
    more
    Technique index
    woven,
    woven,
    dyed,
    dyed,
    embroidered,
    more
    Object type index
    textile,
    screen
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
    Accession no.
    LI1956.21

  • 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. 21 p. 126, p. 27, cover & pp.124-129

Glossary (2)

lacquer, maki-e

Past Exhibition

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Location

    • returned to owner

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