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Xiwangmu (Seiôbo), the Queen Mother of the West


Seiôbo zu
西王母図
Kano Norinobu (Japanese, 1692–1731)
Japanese
Edo period
first half of the 18th century

Medium/Technique One of a set of three hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
Dimensions Image: 93.7 x 36.5 cm (36 7/8 x 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4194
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. I (Kano), no. 16(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