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Japanese
Object Place: Japan

Medium/Technique Brocade
Dimensions Height x width (a): 6.5 x 16.5 cm (2 9/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Height x width (b): 4 1/2 x 8 7/16 in. (11.5 x 21.5 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Elizabeth Roome Luquer in memory of her Grandfather, General Charles Roome
Accession Number84.465
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionWhite silk ground on which is woven a design of groups of deep violet clouds forming diamonds and broken at intervals by circles of dragons, woven with white and light red silk. In one corner of a is what is doubtless part of a yellow imperial chrysanthemum. 84.417-84.553 were bought for $150,000 of Louis Wertheimer at the Foreign Fair, Jan. 7, 1884.
ProvenancePurchased at the Foreign Fair from Louis Wertheimer by the MFA on January 7, 1884