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Fragment of Bugaku costume (hanpi)
Japanese
Edo period
17th or early 18th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk plain-weave ground with silk discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts, embroidered
Dimensions
Overall: 56.5 x 26.5 cm (22 1/4 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number09.138
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionFragment of Bugaku dance vest (hanpi) with design of interlacing diamond lattice surrounding phoenix and paulownia motifs embroidered in reddish-orange, green and white silk on a dark blue plain-weave silk ground.
ProvenanceDenman Waldo Ross Collection; Gift from Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA, February 9, 1909