title: Portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masuda_Motoyoshi" class="extiw" title="en:Masuda Motoyoshi">Masuda Motoyoshi</a> (or Genshō)

artist: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%C5%8D_Sh%C5%8Dei" class="extiw" title="en:Kanō Shōei">Kanō Shōei</a>

date: Momoyama period

medium: Colors on silk (絹本着色)

dimensions: 108.4 x 51.7 cm (each)

current location: Shimane, Japan [[:en:Iwami Art Museum|Iwami Art Museum]] ([[:ja:島根県立石見美術館|島根県立石見美術館]])

source: The Japanese book "The Kano School in the Muromachi Period: on the road to artistic predominance (室町時代の狩野派：画壇制覇への道)", Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan (中央公論美術出版), 1999　　 ISBN|9784805503621

credit: The Japanese book "The Kano School in the Muromachi Period: on the road to artistic predominance (室町時代の狩野派：画壇制覇への道)", Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan (中央公論美術出版), 1999　　<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9784805503621" title="Special:BookSources/9784805503621">ISBN 9784805503621</a>

title: <div class="fn"> <i>Silk stockings which can no longer be worn are being collected in stores throughout the countryfor conversation into powder bags which propel the projectile in big naval and coast defense guns.</i> </div>

artist: <div class="fn value"> Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. (06/13/1942 - 09/15/1945), Photographer (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.archives.gov/person/1138532">NARA record: 1138532</a>)<br> </div>

date: circa December 1942 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1942-12-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902</div>

current location: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (NLFDR), 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY, 12538-1999.

credit: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" class="extiw" title="en:U.S. National Archives and Records Administration">U.S. National Archives and Records Administration</a>

title: Mawangdui silk banner from tomb no1

artist: unknown

date: Western Han period (206 BC − 25 AD)

medium: Three layers of silk<br/> One piece of silk sewn over the whole width of the center part<br/> A piece of silk sewn on each side of the upper part<br/> A bamboo stick at top, wrapped by the silk<br/> Four tassels made from indigo flax thread

dimensions: 205 cm long<br/>92 cm wide at the top<br/>47.7 cm wide at the bottom

current location: Hunan Provincial Museum

source: Screenshot stitched from <br/>[http://www.hnmuseum.com/hnmuseum/whatson/e_exhibitions/mwd/index.html 马王堆汉墓陈列全景数字展厅] (flash website). Changsha: Hunan Provincial Museum.

credit: Screenshot stitched from <br><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hnmuseum.com/hnmuseum/whatson/e_exhibitions/mwd/index.html">马王堆汉墓陈列全景数字展厅</a> (flash website). Changsha: Hunan Provincial Museum.

description: <div class="description"> <p>The painting on <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">silk</u> depicts the heaven (upper part), the human realm (middle part), and the netherworld (bottom part). </p> <p><b>Heaven:</b> </p> <ul> <li>Nüwa, depicted as a human with a serpent's body</li> <li>Sun with its golden crow</li> <li>Another eight suns in the Fusang tree</li> <li>Toad on the moon</li> <li>Chang'e flying to the moon</li> <li>Heavenly gate separating heaven and earth as well as its gatekeepers</li> </ul> <p><b>Human realm:</b> </p> <ul> <li>Xin Zhui (the deceased occupant of the tomb), accompanied by three maids of honor and welcomed by two minor officials, traveling over the <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">road</u> to heaven</li> <li>People who are offering sacrifices and prayers in a memorial service</li> </ul> <p><b>Netherworld:</b> </p> <ul><li>Giant that stands on the back of whales while holding up earth</li></ul> </div>

title: <div class="fn"> Bazaar of the Silk Mercers in Cairo</div>

artist: unknown

source: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/07/0d/a3b68767d3ff09992de99374e62a.jpg * Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0021542.html * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-23): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/duvdhned [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY-4.0]

credit: <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/07/0d/a3b68767d3ff09992de99374e62a.jpg">https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/07/0d/a3b68767d3ff09992de99374e62a.jpg</a> </p> <ul> <li>Gallery: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0021542.html">https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0021542.html</a> </li> <li>Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-23): <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/duvdhned">https://wellcomecollection.org/works/duvdhned</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY-4.0</a> </li> </ul>

description: <div class="description"> <p>Bazaar of the <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">silk</u> Mercers in Cairo The space between two walls of the Sultan al-Ghuri complex is shown roofed over and used as a space for a <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">silk</u>-market, with much gathering for gossip, coffee, and smoking as well as for manufacture and sale of goods. Today the buildings are still there but the market has disappeared, and the unroofed space is a through-<u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">road</u> for car traffic. </p> <p>Iconographic Collections<br> Keywords: David Roberts; David Roberts</p> </div>

title: Scène de banquet, fresque, Herculanum

artist: <div class="fn value"> Unknown author</div>

date: ca. 50 BCE

source: from ''Le Musée absolu'', Phaidon, 10-2012

credit: from <i>Le Musée absolu</i>, Phaidon, 10-2012

description: A late Roman-Republican banquet scene in a fresco from Herculaneum, Italy. 59 x 53 cm. The woman wears a transparent <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">silk</u> gown while the man to the left raises a rhyton drinking vessel.

title: Lions, soie polychrome sogdienne, Asie centrale

artist: <div class="fn value"> Unknown author</div>

date: 8^th century <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Anno_Domini" class="extiw" title="w:en:Anno Domini">AD</a> <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div>

source: from ''Le Musée absolu'', Phaidon, 10-2012

credit: from <i>Le Musée absolu</i>, Phaidon, 10-2012

description: Lions, Sogdian polychrome <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">silk</u>, Central Asia. Probably from Bukhara, Uzbekistan. 46 x 62 cm.

title: MET 4082

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Hiroshige" class="extiw" title="w:en:Hiroshige">Hiroshige</a> </bdi>

date: 19^th century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div>

medium: Matted painting; ink and color on silk

dimensions: 13 15/16 x 21 7/16 in. (35.4 x 54.4 cm)

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40338 Template:TheMet

credit: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Met" title="Commons:Met">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>. See the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources">Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy</a>

title: MET 4084

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Hiroshige" class="extiw" title="w:en:Hiroshige">Hiroshige</a> </bdi>

date: 19^th century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div>

medium: Matted painting; ink and color on silk

dimensions: 8 1/4 x 12 3/16 in. (21.0 x 30.9 cm)

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40340 Template:TheMet

credit: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Met" title="Commons:Met">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>. See the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources">Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy</a>

title: <div class="fn"> 近代 俞明 絲路行旅圖 扇面</div>

artist: <div class="fn value"> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creator:Yu_Ming&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Creator:Yu Ming (page does not exist)">Creator:Yu Ming</a> </div>

date: early 20th century

medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper

dimensions: 8 x 21 3/4 in. (20.3 x 55.2 cm)

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49627 Template:TheMet

credit: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Met" title="Commons:Met">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>. See the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources">Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy</a>

title: Ménade danzante, Casa del Naviglio, Pompeya

artist: unknown

date: 20 a. C-45 d. C.

medium: technique fresco

dimensions: 66 x 52 cm

current location: Institution:Naples National Archaeological Museum Pompeya

source: [https://www.agefotostock.com/age/es/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/MDO-5072731 Age Fotostock]

credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.agefotostock.com/age/es/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/MDO-5072731">Age Fotostock</a>

description: Menade (or <i>maenad</i>) in <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">silk</u> dress, a Roman fresco from the Casa del Naviglio in Pompeii, 1st century AD, Naples National Museum.