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Parody of the Three Vinegar Tasters


見立三酸図
Attributed to: Komatsuken (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1766 (Meiwa 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 27.7 x 21 cm (10 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8183
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #620; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 603; Waterhouse, Harunobu and his Age (1964), #18
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13439, 21.8183

The third state (of four) of a calendar print for 1766, with the calendrical information and signature of the designer (Sakei) removed. This impression may be a 19th-centuiry reprint, albeit from the original blocks.
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceSeptember 1921, acquired by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.