H x W (flat): 25.5 x 30 cm (10 1/16 x 11 13/16 in)
Type:
Costume and Textile
Origin:
Japan
Date:
19th century
Period:
Edo period or Meiji era
Description:
Light blue silk background with numerous motifs throughout: flower and branch with leaves, small blossoms, and green and white butterflies and flowers along with silver and white flowers. There is a gold silk rope drawstring. The interior is lined with white silk.
Provenance:
?-1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), method of acquisition unknown [1]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
Notes:
[1] This bag once held a ceramic owned by Charles Lang Freer but was separated from that ceramic at an unknown time for an unknown reason, most likely after Freer's collection was brought to Washington, DC (see note 2).
[2] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920, upon the completion of the Freer Gallery of Art.
