Accordion album with 394 15th-19th century textile fragments

Object Details

• Description

  A sample album containing 394 textile fragments (one missing); textile fragments mounted front and back of 14 folded pages with identifying labels; mounted as an accordion album with brocade covers and four frontispiece paintings.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  Japan and China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Alan Kennedy

• Type

  Album

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• Date

  1700s, 1710s, 1720s, 1770s, 1780s, 1790s, 1730s, 1740s, 1750s, 1760s, 1800s, 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 1610s, 1650s, 1890s, 1640s, 1630s, 1620s, 1690s, 1840s, 1850s, 1680s, 1670s, 1860s, 1660s

• Place

  China, Japan

• Topic

  Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Albums