JAPANESE TEXTILES
A length of deep purple silk satin
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A length of deep purple silk satin
woven in kinran with lotus scrolling tendrilled stems and a quartered roundel--26 x 134in. (65 x 335cm); and a long length of woven blue wool, one end with heavy couched gilt thread work of two interlocking roundels and thickly twisted cable and fringing--26in. wide (65cm), both Japanese, 19th century
See Colour Plate of first piece (2)
woven in kinran with lotus scrolling tendrilled stems and a quartered roundel--26 x 134in. (65 x 335cm); and a long length of woven blue wool, one end with heavy couched gilt thread work of two interlocking roundels and thickly twisted cable and fringing--26in. wide (65cm), both Japanese, 19th century
See Colour Plate of first piece (2)