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Fukusa (Gift Cover)

1868-1912 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Japan (made)

Fukusa (gift cover) of silk gauze, embroidered with a pattern of lozenges enclosing, in alternate diagonal rows, Chinese characters and checker patterns. Black, green, red, yellow, on ground predominately beige. Lined scarlet silk crepe, with a spray of pine embroidered in green in one corner, and a roundel of leaf design in gold in the opposite corner. Thin scarlet tassel in each corner.


Object details

Categories
Textiles
Embroidery
Object type
Fukusa (gift cover)
Materials and techniques
Embroidered silk gauze
Silk (Textile)
Silk Thread
Gauze Weave
Embroidered
Brief description
Fukusa (gift cover), embroidered silk gauze, Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912)
Physical description
Fukusa (gift cover) of silk gauze, embroidered with a pattern of lozenges enclosing, in alternate diagonal rows, Chinese characters and checker patterns. Black, green, red, yellow, on ground predominately beige. Lined scarlet silk crepe, with a spray of pine embroidered in green in one corner, and a roundel of leaf design in gold in the opposite corner. Thin scarlet tassel in each corner.
Dimensions
  • Length: 18in
  • Width: 15.5in
Style
Meiji
Credit line
T. B. Clarke-Thornhill Bequest
Object history
Registered File number 1934/3321.
Subjects depicted
Pine Tree
Lozenges
Chinese Characters
Bibliographic reference
Takemura, Akihiko. Fukusa : Japanese gift covers. Tokyo: Iwasaki Bijutsu-sha, 1991, p. 296. ISBN 475341325X
Collection
East Asia Collection
Accession number
T.191-1934

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Record createdOctober 1, 2010
Record URL
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