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Buddhist altar cloth (uchishiki)
Japanese
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
66 x 66 cm (26 x 26 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.3953
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionBuddhist altar cloth (uchishiki) with design of linked octagons and squares (shokkô pattern variation), filled with open flowers, wreaths of flowers, enclosing dragon roundels and other forms in light/dark green, light/dark blue, yellow white silk and gilt paper strip discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts on a reddish-orange twill-weave silk ground; lined with natural plain-weave hemp.
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.