Long Brocade with Chrysanthemum Crests (served as a wall hanging to place behind the Shotoku Taishi Shrine)
Late Edo period, late 18th to early 19th century
Dimensions
313.3 x 132 cm (123 3/8 x 51 15/16 in.)
Provenance
[Yamanaka Shoji Co., Ltd, Awata Kyoto (by1956)], sold; to Ellery Sedgwick, Beverly, MA , (1956-1960), passed; to his wife, Marjorie Russell, Beverly, MA (1960-1971), inherited; by Ellery Sedgwick, Jr., Gates Mills, Ohio, (1971-1991), inherited; by Walter Sedgwick, San Francisco, (1991-2019), partial and promised gift; to the Harvard Art Museums.
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