Xiwangmu (Seiôbo), the Queen Mother of the West – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Xiwangmu (Seiôbo), the Queen Mother of the West

Xiwangmu (Seiôbo), the Queen Mother of the West

西王母図屏風

Kano Chikanobu (Japanese, 1660–1728)

Japanese

Edo period

first half of the 18th century

Medium/Technique One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, light color, and gold on paper

Dimensions Image: 150.4 x 340.6 cm (59 3/16 x 134 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection

Accession Number11.4177

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. I (Kano), no. 101(2)

ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the Museum