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Art Institute of Chicago

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Unrecorded artist

early Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1926/40

Attribution
Japan
Medium
Mon side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome); Patterned side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome hikizome); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton, silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk and gold-leaf-over- lacquered-paper strips in individual back, satin, stem and straight stitches; couching; sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase); corner: silk-wrapped cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, knotted, re-plied fringe tassels
Physical dimensions
45 × 39.6 cm (17 3/4 × 15 1/2 in.)
Credit line
Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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