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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
Museum record:
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