The 555 Artworks of media Silk and containing the word chou ch'en, silk, 1650

Gusoku Armor and Helmet,bearskin trimming and black silklacing.Momoyama-Edo period, 16-17th c.Worn by Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616), the founder and 1st shogun of the Tokugawa Bakufu. One of his son was Tokugawa Yoshinao (1600-1650),the 1st head of the Owari Tokugawa clan.An extraordinary suit of armo...

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The dress was made of rayon jersey, treated in bias cut to fit around the body. The surrounding sash has the effect of highlighting the sleek body. The dress is from Madeleine Vionnet/

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In 1928, when Elizabeth Hawes opened her salon in New York City, American women looked to Paris for couture garments, and American designers were copying the designs of the French couturiers. Hawes, however, constructed her designs to fit her clients/

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A-line, floor-length Evening dress in black silk gazar; round neckline; 3/4 length flared raglan sleeves; center front and back seams; tightly pleated bias-cut white organza ruffle at sleeve openings and hem; organza bow at apex; center back zipper closure; black silk lining. Label, in ink on twill ...

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The Southern Song artist, eschewing the Northern Song monumental landscape traditions of 'a hundred peaks and ten thousand trees,' viewed nature through the microcosm of a single pair of trees and one or two rocks suspended in an infinite void. In this scene of unbounded space, vigorous wet-ink line...

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The composition of this fragment of brocaded silk and chenille is typical of French taste of the time with its undulating floral design, interwoven with draping held by cords and tassels of great elegance and decorative effect.Produced in Lyon, it can be attributed to one of the most outstanding art...

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The famous Zen monk Myōtaku (Ryūshū Shūtaku) produced many paintings and prints of Fudō Myōō and his attendants Seitaka Dōji and Kongara Dōji. This painting illustrates Kongara Dōji and probably formed a triptych with Fudō and Seitaka.

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Ganku became famous for his meticulously brushed paintings of tigers. He first studied Kano-style painting and then mastered the more naturalistic manner espoused by the Chinese painter Shen Nanpin (Shen Quan, 1682–1758) as well as by artists of the Maruyama-Shijō school. The more vigorous style he ...

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In his prints, Hiroshige used the unprinted white paper to represent snow, a technique also exploited in this painting, in which unpainted silk, reserved against the pale ink wash, suggests the snow-covered areas. Slightly bleeding ink creates the impression of fluffy snow, and snowflakes were rende...

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Yan Ciyu and his brother Yan Ciping learned to paint from their father Yan Zhong, who painted in the courts of Emperors Huizong and Gaozong of the Song dynasty. Following in their father’s footsteps, Ciyu and Ciping went on to paint for Emperor Xiaozong in the 1160s. Because there is no signature on...

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