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硝子瓶の中の金魚
Goldfish in Glass Bulb (or Glass Bottle with Painting of Goldfish)
硝子瓶の中の金魚
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 21 x 18.5 cm (8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19817
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ohki w/ Haliburton, Private World of Surimono (2020), #20; McKee, Colored in the Year's New Light (Becker coll. exh. ca., 2008), #162; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 9, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels (1989), fig. 119
DescriptionPoem translated in Ohki w/ Haliburton 2020, p. 90, and McKee 2008, p. 302.
Signed
Ôju Hokkei hitsu
応需北渓筆
応需北渓筆
InscriptionsPoem by Yomoginoya: Giyaman [or: Garasu] no/ naka no kingyo no/ sakura-o mo/ kasumi ni tsutsumu/ hana no irokuzu
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.