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Textile sample

Japanese
Late Edo or early Meiji era
mid-19th century
Object Place: Japan

Medium/Technique Silk plain-weave crepe (chirimen), hand drawn paste resist-dyed and painting (yûzen)
Dimensions 28.1 x 39.8 cm (11 1/16 x 15 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number98.284
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionTextile sample with design of pine cone, pine needles, tree branch with nuts and swirling wind in white, brown, gray and blue, created by the yûzen technique, on a blue-gray ground.
ProvenanceWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection; Gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to the MFA, August, 1898