Art Institute of Chicago

Ôhi (Stole)

Unrecorded artist

Edo period (1615–1868), 1775/1825

Attribution

Japan

Medium

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:4 'Z' twill interlacings; patches: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats

Physical dimensions

162.8 × 33.1 cm (64 1/8 × 13 in.)

Credit line

Gift of Gaylord Donnelley in memory of Miss Naomi Donnelley