(Attributed to) Shinshichi Iida / Embroidered Skeletons (Pair)

Remarks: Wear and stains present. Accompanied by reference literature. Published as No. 38 in Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan by Hiroko T. McDermott et al. (The Ashmolean Museum, 2012). Formerly in the collection of Malcolm Fairley, former Head of the Japanese Works of Art Department at Sotheby's. Shinshichi Iida was the hereditary name used by successive heads of Takashimaya and was one of the leading producers of embroidered pictures during the Meiji period.