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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
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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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