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Fragment with birds on flowering shrubs
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Fragment with birds on flowering shrubs

17th century
Object PlaceIran
Medium/TechniqueSilk and silver colored metal strip-wrapped on silk core, twill weave with continuous and discontinuous supplementary wefts attached in twill order with supplementary warps
Dimensions103 x 39 cm (40 9/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number08.389
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ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceDenman Ross collection. Sept. 10, 1908
Kimono (uchikake)
late 19th or early 20th century
Noh costume (karaori)
late 19th or early 20th century
Length of fabric
1550–1600
Fragment of silk
18th or early 19th century