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Copy of "Silk-making in the Palace" (Gong can tu)


宮蚕圖の模写
Kajibashi Kano school (Japanese)
Copied after: Liu Songnian (Chinese, about 1175 – after 1195)
Japanese
Meiji era
Late 19th century

Medium/Technique Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 42.5 × 775.1 cm (16 3/4 × 305 3/16 in.)
Image: 40.5 × 765.7 cm (15 15/16 × 301 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.9257
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

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.