Textile fragment

Museum number:
9-15506
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1997 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Mounted textile fragment. Cotton? Pattern weave? embroidered. Red ground, dark red, and brown designs. From the Shosoin; Note: fragment examined Feb. 1984 by Nobuko Kajitani conservator, MMA: fiber: silk; structure: palinweave (embroidered); from Horyu-Ji (Temple) not Sho so-in (so indicated on slide) therefore 7th century, not 8 - 9th century. 2¼ inches by 3¼ inches including mount.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Nara Prefecture, Kansai, Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions) and Textile samples
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-15506, described as Mounted textile fragment. Cotton? Pattern weave? embroidered. Red ground, dark red, and brown designs. From the Shosoin; Note: fragment examined Feb. 1984 by Nobuko Kajitani conservator, MMA: fiber: silk; structure: palinweave (embroidered); from Horyu-Ji (Temple) not Sho so-in (so indicated on slide) therefore 7th century, not 8 - 9th century. 2¼ inches by 3¼ inches including mount.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-15506, described as Mounted textile fragment. Cotton? Pattern weave? embroidered. Red ground, dark red, and brown designs. From the Shosoin; Note: fragment examined Feb. 1984 by Nobuko Kajitani conservator, MMA: fiber: silk; structure: palinweave (embroidered); from Horyu-Ji (Temple) not Sho so-in (so indicated on slide) therefore 7th century, not 8 - 9th century. 2¼ inches by 3¼ inches including mount.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-15506, described as Mounted textile fragment. Cotton? Pattern weave? embroidered. Red ground, dark red, and brown designs. From the Shosoin; Note: fragment examined Feb. 1984 by Nobuko Kajitani conservator, MMA: fiber: silk; structure: palinweave (embroidered); from Horyu-Ji (Temple) not Sho so-in (so indicated on slide) therefore 7th century, not 8 - 9th century. 2¼ inches by 3¼ inches including mount.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-15506, described as Mounted textile fragment. Cotton? Pattern weave? embroidered. Red ground, dark red, and brown designs. From the Shosoin; Note: fragment examined Feb. 1984 by Nobuko Kajitani conservator, MMA: fiber: silk; structure: palinweave (embroidered); from Horyu-Ji (Temple) not Sho so-in (so indicated on slide) therefore 7th century, not 8 - 9th century. 2¼ inches by 3¼ inches including mount.

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