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Textile Sample from Sample Book

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rectangle of blue fabric with a visible woven texture. Fabric is a medium blue color. A white rectangle with a frayed edge is on the top left corner of the fabric. The white rectangle contains black numbers arranged vertically: 3, 4, 8, 9. The fabric sits on top of a yellow background speckled with small black dots. A small section of black handwriting is on the right edge of the yellow background.

Artwork details

Date:
19th century
Medium:
Silk
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
600 × 230 px
Museum record:
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