Textile fragment

Museum number:
9-15507
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3463 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Mounted Fragment. Silk? Warp patterned weave. Brown, green, red, and gold. From the Shosoin. Mr. Yamanobe is technical expert in textiles at the National Museum, Ueno Park, Tokyo. Note: fragment examined Feb. 1984 by Nobuko Kajitani conservator, MMA: fiber: silk; structure: plainweave (embroidered); from Horyu-Ji (temple), not Sho so-in (so indicated on slide) therefore 7th century, not 8 - 9 century. 2¼ inches by 3¼ inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Nara Prefecture, Kansai, Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions) and Textile samples
Function:
4.2 Public Buildings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-15507, described as Mounted Fragment. Silk? Warp patterned weave. Brown, green, red, and gold. From the Shosoin. Mr. Yamanobe is technical expert in textiles at the National Museum, Ueno Park, Tokyo. Note: fragment examined Feb. 1984 by Nobuko Kajitani conservator, MMA: fiber: silk; structure: plainweave (embroidered); from Horyu-Ji (temple), not Sho so-in (so indicated on slide) therefore 7th century, not 8 - 9 century. 2¼ inches by 3¼ inches.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-15507, described as Mounted Fragment. Silk? Warp patterned weave. Brown, green, red, and gold. From the Shosoin. Mr. Yamanobe is technical expert in textiles at the National Museum, Ueno Park, Tokyo. Note: fragment examined Feb. 1984 by Nobuko Kajitani conservator, MMA: fiber: silk; structure: plainweave (embroidered); from Horyu-Ji (temple), not Sho so-in (so indicated on slide) therefore 7th century, not 8 - 9 century. 2¼ inches by 3¼ inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-15507, described as Mounted Fragment. Silk? Warp patterned weave. Brown, green, red, and gold. From the Shosoin. Mr. Yamanobe is technical expert in textiles at the National Museum, Ueno Park, Tokyo. Note: fragment examined Feb. 1984 by Nobuko Kajitani conservator, MMA: fiber: silk; structure: plainweave (embroidered); from Horyu-Ji (temple), not Sho so-in (so indicated on slide) therefore 7th century, not 8 - 9 century. 2¼ inches by 3¼ inches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-15507, described as Mounted Fragment. Silk? Warp patterned weave. Brown, green, red, and gold. From the Shosoin. Mr. Yamanobe is technical expert in textiles at the National Museum, Ueno Park, Tokyo. Note: fragment examined Feb. 1984 by Nobuko Kajitani conservator, MMA: fiber: silk; structure: plainweave (embroidered); from Horyu-Ji (temple), not Sho so-in (so indicated on slide) therefore 7th century, not 8 - 9 century. 2¼ inches by 3¼ inches.

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