Flower Baskets and Farmer's Hat
Shibata Zeshin Japanese
Not on view
An image of two bamboo baskets and a plaited farmer’s hat is brushed in lacquer (urushi) onto silver leaf that has oxidized to a dark gray color. Shibata Zeshin, a master lacquer artist, was also a talented painter who used the difficult technique of urushi-e (lacquer painting), his own invention, in album paintings as well as scrolls and screens in the 1880s.
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