Curtain

29-96-86

From: Japan

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 29-96-86
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Japanese
Provenience Japan
Period Edo Period (uncertain) | Meiji Period (uncertain)
Date Made 19th Century
Section Asian
Materials Cotton
Iconography Mon | Crest | Ken Mokko
Description

Huge cotton curtain hanging, white with large black motif in circle designs stamped on. The mon is the Ken Mokko (剣木瓜), a flowering quince family crest. Like a theatrical curtain. Crude.

Length 465 cm
Width 180 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904

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