Art Institute of Chicago

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Unrecorded artist

late Edo period (1789–1868), early 19th century

Attribution

Japan

Medium

Mon side: wool, plain weave; fulled (gorfukuren); embroidered with silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in laidwork, couching and paper padded couching; lined (recently) with silk, plain weave; sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase)

Physical dimensions

67.7 × 65.8 cm (26 5/8 × 25 7/8 in.)

Credit line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays