About This Artwork

Japan

Fukusa, 19th century

Pattern side: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk; slit tapestry weave (tsuzure); corners: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquer-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
75.6 x 66.7 cm (29 3/4 x 26 1/4 in.)
Tassel: 12.3 cm (4 7/8 in.)
Gift of the James D. Tigerman Estate, 2004.956