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Buddhist altar cloth (uchishiki)
Japanese
Edo period
18th or 19th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk twill-weave ground with silk discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts tied down with supplementary warps in twill-weave, pieced
Dimensions
Height x width: 52 1/4 x 52 1/2 in. (132.7 x 133.4 cm)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number21.226
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionBuddhist altar cloth (uchishiki) with design of repeating pattern of auspicious Buddhist symbols in green, black and yellow silk discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts on a reddish-orange silk twill-weave ground.
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ProvenanceWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection; gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to the MFA on March 3, 1921