Futon-Gawa (Quilt Cover)
19th century
Maker Unknown
Asian Art
This indigo-dyed cotton quilt cover features dancing figures in elaborate costumes interspersed with the kotobuki character symbolizing long life. Each section of the quilt cover is composed of three to five vertical panels about eighteen inches wide—the width of the loom—basted together.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Indigo-dyed cotton
- Medium
- indigo-dyed, cotton
- Locations
- Place made: Japan
- Period
- Meiji Period
- Dimensions
- 65 × 50 in. (165.1 × 127 cm)
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 83.119.1
- Credit Line
- Brooklyn Museum Collection
- Exhibitions
- Infinite Blue
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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