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Textile Sample from Sample Book

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a sample book page with two purple textile samples. The samples are rectangular with a yellow border speckled with brown dots. The left sample is smaller than the right one. The purple fabric has a woven texture and features dark purple designs. The left sample's design appears to have curved lines and shapes. The right sample depicts a person or animal-like figure with curved lines on the top right and bottom left. It appears to have four limbs and a body. The figure is made up of dark purple designs on the purple fabric. A white sticker on the left sample shows the numbers "3480" in black text. The image background is white. The samples are likely from a textile sample book by an unknown artist.

Artwork Details

Date
19th century
Medium
Silk
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
600 × 267 px
Public Domain
Yes
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