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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 and gilt paper strip discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts tied down with supplementary warps in twill-weave
Dimensions
Overall: 70.3 x 69cm (27 11/16 x 27 3/16in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number21.244
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionBuddhist altar cloth (uchishiki) with design of alternating paulownia and chyrsanthemum roundels on a floral lattice in light and dark green, purple, pink, yellow and white silk and gilt paper strip discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts on a reddish-orange silk ground; unlined.
ProvenanceWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection; gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to the MFA on March 3, 1912