About This Artwork

Japan

Fukusa, 19th century

Pattern side: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, slit tapestry weave (tsuzure); corners: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, tubular 1:1 oblique interlacing over cotton core, knotted; silk-wrapped cotton ball and re-plied silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton fringe tassels
68.95 x 64.8 cm (27 1/8 x 25 1/2 in.)
Tassel: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)
Gift of the James D. Tigerman Estate, 2004.953