Fukuro Obi with Stylized Peacock Tail
1969-1979
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Fukuro Obi with Stylized Peacock Tail
1969-1979
Physical Qualities
Silk, metallic threads, 12 1/4 x 173 in. (31.1 x 439.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sam Dell, Baltimore, in Honor of Geraldine Dell
Object Number
2015.329
A Fukuro Obi of complex woven silk depicting styliized design implying a peacock tail in pastel colors on white ground with silver.threads used as accents. This obi is reversible in that the same material is folded along the entire length to create a wide, stiff, formal band. The reverse, however, includes only the line of the feathers found on the front and a small chevron design. One section of the obi is without pattern.
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The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Samuel M. Dell III, Baltimore; ex. coll. Geraldine M. Dell by purchase, 1987-1992, Tokyo or Kyoto, Japan
Inscribed: None
