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Buddhist altar cloth (uchishiki)
Japanese
Edo period or Meiji era
19th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk twill-weave ground with silk and gold-wrapped thread discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts tied down with supplementary warps in twill-weave, pieced
Dimensions
108 x 104.5 cm (42 1/2 x 41 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number21.229
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionBuddhist altar cloth (uchishiki) with design of rows of yellow chrysanthemum and green and white paulownia motifs in silk and gold-wrapped thread discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts on a reddish-orange twill-weave silk ground; lined with cream silk satin.
ProvenanceWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection; gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to the MFA on March 3, 1921