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唐人館之図
Chinese Figures in a Pavilion Playing Sugoroku
唐人館之図
Japanese
Edo period
1740s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions
Horizontal ô-ôban; 30.7 x 44.1 cm (12 1/16 x 17 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13347
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Asia Soc./JASA, Designed for Pleasure (2008), p. 73, fig. 50; Kishi, Edo no enkin-hô (1994), fig. 3; Kobe City Art Mus., Megane-e to Tokaido (1984), #101; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 123
Signed
(signature in margin, torn off of this impression)
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.