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Maru Obi with Overlapping Mirrors

1911

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Maru Obi with Overlapping Mirrors

1911

Physical Qualities Silk with brocading patterning wefts of silk and silver-leafed paper strips wrapped around a cotton thread core, 157 x 12-1/4 in.
Credit Line Bequest of Sylvia G. Straton, Rhinebeck, New York
Object Number 2002.688
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest , 2002; Sylvia G. Straton, Rhinebeck, New York
Anita Jones and Ann Marie Moeller, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, "Kimono and Obi: Romantic Echoes from Japan's Golden Age," July 10, 2016 - January 15, 2017.

Anita Jones, "Curator's Choice: Recent Additions to the Textiles Collection, " Baltimore Museum fo Art, Baltimore, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, April 27 - November 27, 2011.

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