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Phoenix

(Japanese, 1760–1849)
1835 (Tenpô 6)
Medium/TechniqueEight-panel folding screen; ink, color, cut gold-leaf, and sprinkled gold on paper
DimensionsImage: 35.8 x 233.2 cm (14 1/8 x 91 13/16 in.)
Overall: 44.7 x 242 cm (17 5/8 x 95 1/4 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.7433
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
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.
Matsumura Keibun
19th century
Matsumura Keibun
19th century
Cherry Blossoms and Stream
Kano Eigaku
mid-19th century
The Tale of Ise: Ariwara no Narihara Looking at Mount Fuji
Ishida Yûtei Morinao
latter half of the 18th century
The Tale of Ise: Two Poets and Autumn Foliage by the Tatsuta River
Ishida Yûtei Morinao
latter half of the 18th century
Matsugaki Tsuruo
1947
Matsugaki Tsuruo
1947
Katsushika Hokusai
latter half of the 19th century
Katsushika Hokusai
latter half of the 19th century
Ikeno Taiga
mid 18th century
Katsura River in Spring
Higashiyama Giryo
1858 (Ansei 5)
Artist unknown, Japanese
Shôtoku era (1711–16) - Kyôhô ( 1716–36) eras