Altar cloth

Museum number:

9-5651

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Accession number:

Acc.374

Object count:

1

Description:

Altar cloth, Buddhist; red satin patterned with nine 16 petaled chrysanthemum roundels (one in center surrounded by the other eight); alternating rows of a traditional patterned roundel of hanabishi (lozenge-shaped flowers) in center surrounded by four cloves (chojo) and four stylized wisteria (fuji); width 66 cm

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Japan

Verbatim coll. place:

Japan

Culture or time period:

Japanese

Collector:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection date:

1909

Materials:

Cotton (textile) and Satin

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Altar cloths

Function:

4.2 Public Buildings and Furnishings

Accession date:

1909

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

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