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late 17th–mid-18th century · Shibori-dyed silk satin (nume) embroidered with silk and metallic thread · Asian Art

The curving bamboo curtain on this textile must have swept imperiously from houlder to hem in the complete kosode from which this fragment came. The view beyond the curtain is of pine trees, their boughs embroidered in brilliantly chosen shades of silk. Under the boughs are ghostly outlines of what might once have been trunks delineated in embroidery.

Artist

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Date

late 17th–mid-18th century

Medium

Shibori-dyed silk satin (nume) embroidered with silk and metallic thread

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