Plaque with design of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Plaque with design of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Plaque with design of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Namikawa Sôsuke (Japanese, 1847–1910)
After: Kano Naonobu (Japanese, 1607–1650)

Japanese

Meiji era

about 1893

Medium/Technique Cloisonne enamels on copper, worked in hidden wire (shosen), shading (bokashi) and silver-alloy wire, in original hardwood frame

Dimensions Image: 41.1 x 62 cm (16 3/16 x 24 3/8 in.)
Weight: 19.84 lb. (9 kg)

Credit Line Museum purchase with an anonymous gift and by exchange from a Gift of John T. Spaulding

Accession Number2004.564

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsEnamels

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 208

Signed The reverse with the silver-wire Sakigake mark of Namikawa Sosuke

ProvenanceBy 1984, with a West Coast collector; Between 2000 and 2003, acquired by Malcolm Fairley, Malcolm Fairley Japanese Works of Art, London; September 2004, purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession date: September 22, 2004).