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Peafowls and Flowers


Botan ni kujaku zu
牡丹に孔雀図(双幅の内)
Mashiyama Sessai (Japanese,1754 – 1819)
Japanese
Edo period
1801 (Kyôwa 1)

Medium/Technique One from a pair of hanging scrolls; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions Overall (including jiku and hanging braid): 243.8 × 86.4 cm (96 × 34 in.)
Image: 146.7 × 59 cm (57 3/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4669
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

ProvenanceBefore 1886, acquired in Japan by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 - d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold with the Fenollosa collection to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 - d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)