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Plaque with design of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
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)
Weight: 19.84 lb. (9 kg)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with an anonymous gift and by exchange from a Gift of John T. Spaulding Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund, Mr. and Mrs. Stokley Towles, Mr. and Mrs. Irving Rabb, Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Linde, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stemberg, Morris and Louise Rosenthal Fund, Susan B. Kaplan, William E. Nickerson Fund, Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, Barbara and Steven Grossman, Mr. and Mrs. J. Atwood Ives, Ernest Kahn Fund, Helen B. Sweeney Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, Mrs. I. W. Colburn, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adams, Mr. and Mrs. William Crozier, Lynn Dayton, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fraser, an anonymous donor, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jaffe, Davis and Carol Noble, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld, Arthur Mason Knapp Fund, Mary L. Smith Fund, Susan Cornelia Warren Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Remis, Judith Pick Eissner, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Olney, and Benjamin Pierce Cheney Donation Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund, Mr. and Mrs. Stokley Towles, Mr. and Mrs. Irving Rabb, Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Linde, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stemberg, Morris and Louise Rosenthal Fund, Susan B. Kaplan, William E. Nickerson Fund, Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, Barbara and Steven Grossman, Mr. and Mrs. J. Atwood Ives, Ernest Kahn Fund, Helen B. Sweeney Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, Mrs. I. W. Colburn, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adams, Mr. and Mrs. William Crozier, Lynn Dayton, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fraser, an anonymous donor, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jaffe, Davis and Carol Noble, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld, Arthur Mason Knapp Fund, Mary L. Smith Fund, Susan Cornelia Warren Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Remis, Judith Pick Eissner, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Olney, and Benjamin Pierce Cheney Donation
Accession NumberTraining.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).