A vase with silk being decorated, dried and folded; the Osaka City Museum holds the original copper-plate design, donated by the Yabu family. Dated c. 1910; dimensions h 18 cm. Published: Impey and Fairley (eds.), 1995, cat. 87; J. Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan, 2002, cat. 97, p. 153. Attribution to Yabu Meizan per the collection’s Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons record (uploaded with Khalili Foundation permission); the maker is not named in the collection page text as fetched. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, London, accession S 77.
Vase with silk decorators at work
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Curatorial notes
Attribution to Yabu Meizan per the collection's Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons record (uploaded with Khalili Foundation permission); the maker is not named in the collection page text as fetched.
Literature
Impey and Fairley (eds.), 1995, cat. 87; J. Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan, 2002, cat. 97, p. 153.