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Drawing, Textile Design: Tokio (Tokyo)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Felice Rix-Ueno and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1924 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds.

Its dimensions are

7.6 × 23.2 cm (3 in. × 9 1/8 in.) Mat: 31.8 × 45.7 cm (12 1/2 in. × 18 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: "TOKIO"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Tokio (Tokyo); Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno (Austrian, 1893–1967, active Japan 1935–1967); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache on paper; 7.6 × 23.2 cm (3 in. × 9 1/8 in.) Mat: 31.8 × 45.7 cm (12 1/2 in. × 18 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-960

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