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second half of the 17th century · Ground of red float-patterned plain-weave (saya) · Asian Art

This fragment's auspicious patterning brings together a flowering plum tree and fans, one of them decorated with a pair of cranes among pine boughs, bamboo, and mandarin orange blossoms and fruit. The tiny, densely spaced kanoko spots of the textile's clouds and blue fan are typical of the kanoko shibori technique of the mid-seventeenth century.

Artist

Unknown

Date

second half of the 17th century

Medium

Ground of red float-patterned plain-weave (saya)

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Purchase, Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2000 Benefit Fund, and funds from various donors, 2001