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Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Stoneware cup with cover and saucer decorated with bright blue, yellow and white ornaments.

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  • Stoneware cup with cover and saucer decorated with bright blue, yellow and white ornaments.

Date:

1912/26, Taishô period (1912–1926)

Artist:

Japan

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Place

Japan (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1912–1926

Medium

Patterned side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome and hikizome); lined with silk, plain weave (possibly dyed with safflower (benibana); sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase)

Dimensions

64.5 × 65 cm (25 3/8 × 25 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays

Reference Number

2001.229

Extended information about this artwork

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