Storage bag (shifuku) for tea-ceremony utensil

Object Details

• Description

  Light brown, dark brown and rust silk with a woven floral motif. This bag is in very poor condition. More than half of this fabric is missing.The silk is still actively shattering and small fibers are being shed because of this. The solid brown silk under panel is exposed throughout most of the bag. The interior is lined with gold silk with a lighter gold floral motif woven throughout. One of the exterior panels is heavily torn along the edge and there is also a vertical tear (4.5cm). The drawstring is missing.

• 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.

  Research Completed on March 23, 2022

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Freer Gallery of Art Study Collection, Smithsonian Institution

• Type

  Costume and Textile

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Tea, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Flowers, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Costume, Textiles