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Auspicious Birds and Flowers


花卉端鳥図
Japanese
Edo period
19th century

Medium/Technique Unmounted painting; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions Image: 172.5 x 267 cm (67 15/16 x 105 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.6377
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. I (Kano), no. 423
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.