Seven-columned kesa with decoration of flower baskets. Columns, dividing bands, border: red silk six-harness twill weave ground patterned with flower baskets in the long floats of the supplementary wefts. The flat gold-leafed paper thread glitters brilliantly. The flower baskets are rendered in...
Provenance
Gift to MFA on March 3, 1921
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Japanese, Meiji era, latter half of the 19th to early 20th century
Object Place
Japan
Dimensions
110.8 x 202.8 cm (43 5/8 x 79 13/16 in.)
Accession Number
21.199
Medium or Technique
Appliquéd Karaori, silk, gilt paper; silvered paper filé; 5/1 twill weave with continuous supplementary wefts (gilt paper) bound in 1/2 twill order and discontinuous supplementary weft floats (silk and filé); pieced and appliquéd