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Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment, between 1764 and 1771

  • Japanese

Couched gold-wrapped silk and silk embroidery and color on silk damask

  • Overall: 18 × 12 3/4 inches (45.7 × 32.4 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

29.156

Department

Asian Art

Details

(Yamanaka and Co., Ltd. [1895-1944], New York, New York, USA)

1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

University Liggett Antiques Show. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe Woods, June 13-16, 1979, pp. 14-15.

Japanese, Textile Fragment, between 1764 and 1771, couched gold-wrapped silk and silk embroidery and color on silk damask. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.156.

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