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A kesa of bronze silk
thirteen strips, woven with pink, green, blue and ivory silks with predominantly one silk with a honeycomb design with a floral centre interspersed with roundels with paired cranes, the corner squares of bird roundels among clouds--77 x 41in. (192.5 x 102.5cm.), Japanese, 18th century and a small kesa of sea green silk with roundels of phoenix with flowers-56 x 22in., Japanese, 19th century
See Colour Plate 9a
thirteen strips, woven with pink, green, blue and ivory silks with predominantly one silk with a honeycomb design with a floral centre interspersed with roundels with paired cranes, the corner squares of bird roundels among clouds--77 x 41in. (192.5 x 102.5cm.), Japanese, 18th century and a small kesa of sea green silk with roundels of phoenix with flowers-56 x 22in., Japanese, 19th century
See Colour Plate 9a