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宝船
DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012
Women in a Phoenix Boat at New Year
宝船
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1793 (Kansei 5)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; about 38.1 × 25.4 cm (15 × 10 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.23041
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #157; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #73; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 209, list no. 148; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #563
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych.
MFA impressions: 11.14128-30 (complete), *11.23041 (center sheet only, deaccessioned in 2012)
MFA impressions: 11.14128-30 (complete), *11.23041 (center sheet only, deaccessioned in 2012)
Signed
Eishi ga
栄之画
栄之画
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.