Japanese Edo period antique kesi silk tapestry (205 x 136cm)

205 x 136 cm  //  6ft 9" x 4ft 6"

Superb kesi workmanship is done in silk, gilt & paper strip-wrapped silk tapestry weave. The purpose of this silk tapestry may have been for hanging from an alter.

Some damaged areas professionally conserved and lined with glazed cotton 

• first half 19th C 

Ref. 17814