Advanced Search 
Bag for tea container (shifuku)
Japanese (made from Chinese fabric)
Edo period
18th or 19th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk twill-weave ground with silk discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts tied down with supplementary warps in twill-weave, silk braided cord
Dimensions
Overall (Approx for storage): 12 x 8 x 6 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.626
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionDrawstring bag (shifuku) for tea container (chaire) with design of vertical bands of interlocking swastika fretwork (manji tsunagi) along the bottom and horizontal bands of a repeating floral motif along the top in light blue, dark blue and gold silk discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts on a white, silk satin ground (possibly 15th or 16th century, Ming dynasty). There is an iridescent blue, plain-weave silk lining and a white silk braided cord.
ProvenanceDenman Waldo Ross Collection; gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA on April 1, 1915