Artwork preview

Connoisseur’s Album of Edo-Period Silk Fragments

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a collection of three rectangular, cutout sections of fabrics with different patterns on them. The leftmost fabric features a gold floral design on a dark background. The top middle fabric has a white flower with brown lines on a white background with a brown border around the edge. The rightmost fabric displays a branch with white flowers on a beige background. The background of the image is white with a beige border around the edge. There are Japanese characters written on small pieces of paper, stuck to the right of each fabric section.

Artwork Details

Date
19th century
Medium
Accordion album of fourteen pages with textile fragments
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
599 × 455 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
View original
Palette