DepartmentTextiles-Asia

Futon Cover

NameBed Cover

Artist Artist unrecorded

DateLate 19th century

Place madeKyushu Island, Japan, East Asia, Asia

MediumCotton

Dimensions65 × 51 in. (165.1 × 129.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Lloyd E. Cotsen and the Neutrogena Corporation, A.1995.93.660

Object numberA.1995.93.660

Collections

The Lloyd Cotsen & Neutrogena Collection

DescriptionA cotton futon with a phoenix hovering over a branch of paulownia tree; colors are indigo, red, orange, off-white, gray; techniques are resist-dyeing and hand painted dyes.

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