2013.74: Buddhist Priest's Stole (Ohi) with Decoration of Flowers and Grasses over a Ground with Horizontal Linear Pattern
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2013.74
- Title
- Buddhist Priest's Stole (Ohi) with Decoration of Flowers and Grasses over a Ground with Horizontal Linear Pattern
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- costume
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/211757
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Compound weave brown silk with supplementary gold wefts; selected motifs embroidered in polychrome silk threads
- Dimensions
- max. H. 163.8 x W. 35.8 cm (64 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Louis V. Ledoux Collection, New York (by 1948), by descent; to his son L. Pierre Ledoux, New York (1948-2001), by inheritance; to his widow Joan F. Ledoux, New York, (2001-2013), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2013.
Footnotes:
1. Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948)
2. L. Pierre Ledoux (1912-2001)
3. On long term loan to Harvard Art Museums from 1985 to 2013.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Louis V. Ledoux Collection; Gift of Mrs. L. Pierre Ledoux in memory of her husband
- Accession Year
- 2013
- Object Number
- 2013.74
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- A Buddhist priest's stole worn draped over the forearm in concert with a kesa (robe), this columnar garment known as an ōhi is made up of mulitple pieces of the same cloth that together form a patchwork of squares and rectangles framed within a border. The fabric ground was dyed to a brown color; supplementary wefts of gold were interwoven into the main fabric to create a horizontal linear pattern. Multicolored silk threads were utlized to embroider images of flowers and leaves over the brown and gold ground.
Verification Level
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