Textile

Museum number:
9-21598
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0560 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Obi fabric; two joined panels; multicolored birds standing on stylized rocks interspersed w/ large peones and smaller blossoms of yellow-orange, lavender, pale yellow, white, gold and red-orange and blue-purple surrounded by green leaves and stems on a beige ground. Rocks are pale green, brown, black and pale yellow and pale green with tufts of vegetation.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
Woman’s garment
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 285 centimeters and width 695 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21598, described as Obi fabric; two joined panels; multicolored birds standing on stylized rocks interspersed w/ large peones and smaller blossoms of yellow-orange, lavender, pale yellow, white, gold and red-orange and blue-purple surrounded by green leaves and stems on a beige ground. Rocks are pale green, brown, black and pale yellow and pale green with tufts of vegetation.

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