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Miniature Kite Design with Portrait of Daruma, probably cut from an unidentified harimaze sheet


達磨絵の凧 (張交ヵ)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 15.2 x 10.7 cm (6 x 4 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45898
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPossibly from a harimaze sheet of small pictures intended to be cut apart; or possibly intended to be part of a toy picture with multiple components.
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.