Connoisseur’s Album of Edo-Period Silk Fragments
A late nineteenth-century connoisseur, who valued the art of Japanese textile design and the techniques they embodied, assembled a collection of fragments in these traditionally bound books.
Artwork Details
- 古裂帖
- Title: Connoisseur’s Album of Edo-Period Silk Fragments
- Period: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Date: 19th century
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Accordion album of fourteen pages with textile fragments
- Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (29.2 x 38.7cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Sample Books
- Credit Line: Gift of Frank Edward Sherman, 1969
- Object Number: 69.56.1
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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