Basket of Fresh Herbs and Chopping Knife – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Basket of Fresh Herbs and Chopping Knife

Basket of Fresh Herbs and Chopping Knife

若菜積みの籠と刀

Dôshû (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Kokonotsugiri; 13.8 x 14.9 cm (5 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse

Accession Number53.2660

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPossibly Ishisato Dôshû (died 1785).

Signed Dôshû ga
洞秀画

ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; 1953, gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1953)