About This Artwork

Japan

Fukusa (Gift Cover), Late Edo period (1789–1868), early 19th centuryrr

Silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton and silver leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave (kesi); lined; tasseled
76.6 x 71.4 cm (30 1/8 x 28 1/8 in.)
Gift of Gaylord Donnelley in memory of Frances Gaylord Smith, 1991.795