Birds and Flowers

Watanabe Shôeki (Japanese, born in 1848)

late 19th century

Medium/TechniqueOne from a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color and gold on gold-leafed paper

DimensionsImage: 170.2 x 370.8 cm (67 x 146 in.)
Overall: 177.8 x 386.1 cm (70 x 152 in.)

Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession number11.8026

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Asia

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.