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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a blue and brown woven fabric with a label featuring foreign writing. The fabric fills most of the image and has horizontal stripes that are woven in different patterns. The stripes at the top and bottom have a thick horizontal stripe with thin vertical stripes and horizontal zigzag pattern respectively. The label is on the right side of the fabric and features black foreign writing on a beige background. The background of the image is white with faint written words on the left and a series of numbers at the bottom.

Artwork details

Date:
18th century
Medium:
Silk / Compound weave
Culture:
China or Japan
Dimensions:
560 × 625 px
Museum record:
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