Flower Baskets and Farmer's Hat

ca. 1880s

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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柴田是真筆籠・菅笠図
Title: Flower Baskets and Farmer's Hat
Artist: Shibata Zeshin (Japanese, 1807–1891)
Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)
Date: ca. 1880s
Culture: Japan
Medium: Album leaf; lacquer, ink, and silver leaf on paper
Dimensions: 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (12.1 x 8.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
Object Number: 36.100.121
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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