MFA 35.1967, Fragment of silk, Japan (9th or 10th century)

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Artifact Information

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 35.1967. 7.8 x 10.3 cm (Gift of Yamanaka & Co.).

Textile fragment with design of flowers and cyprus fence in yellow supplementary weft patterning on yellow twill-weave silk ground.


Fragment with wrestling lions and harpies. © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Summary of results

two threads, red and green, were collected for dye analysis, analyzed by prof. R. Larusen at Boston University


References

[1] http://https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/fragment-with-wrestling-lions-and-harpies-66254