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Textile Strip with Leaves

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a long, narrow textile strip with a pattern of leaves. The strip has a beige border around it. The pattern on the strip features various colored leaves with white outlines, arranged in a stacked formation. The leaves are colored in shades of green, pink, red, beige, brown, and blue. The leaves have wavy edges and are outlined in white. The background of the image is a solid beige color. The artist of this piece is not visually described but is known as associated with this work: "Textile Strip with Leaves".

Artwork details

Medium:
Resist-dyed and painted plain-weave silk
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
98 × 620 px
Museum record:
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