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Piece

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a square of fabric with a repeating pattern. The fabric is gray with a repeating pattern of hexagons and squares with gold, brown, and black designs. The hexagons and squares are outlined in gold and are arranged in a grid. The hexagons are at the top, bottom, left, and right and in the center. The squares are on the left, right, top, and bottom. The background of the image is a beige color. There are numbers printed in red at the bottom left. The title of the image is "Piece" by an unknown artist.

Artwork details

Date:
18th–19th century
Medium:
Silk
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
599 × 528 px
Museum record:
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