1934.8.A-B: Printed Textile Fragment with Fire-Breathing Lion Surrounded by Stylized Clouds
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1934.8.A-B
- Title
- Printed Textile Fragment with Fire-Breathing Lion Surrounded by Stylized Clouds
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- Kamakura period, circa 13th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Kamakura period, 1185-1333
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/206634
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock printed silk with red and white colored details added by brush
- Dimensions
- 34.5 x 44.2 cm (13 9/16 x 17 3/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Yagyu Collection, Nara, Japan.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
- Accession Year
- 1934
- Object Number
- 1934.8.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Usher P. Coolidge, Religious Wood-Block Prints of the Far East: An Exhibition of Chinese, Korean and Japanese Religious Wood-Block Prints Dating from the Seventh to the Nineteenth Century, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, October to November, 1948., exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1948), Cat. No. 16, p. 13 (not illustrated)
Verification Level
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