About This Artwork

Japan

Furisode, 1750/1800

Silk, plain weave, creped wefts (chirimen); paste resist dyed (yuzen) and painted; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in satin, single satin and stem stitches; couching; lining plain weave
153.9 x 124.7 cm (60 5/8 x 49 1/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Herbert L. Stern, 1957.142