Garments hung on screens
date: label: Date
content: first half 17th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Label
content: This pair of six-panel folding screens depicts assorted women's garments draped over two folding screens. The stylish kosode, forerunners of the kimono, were sewn from black silk with stenciled gold-leaf decoration. Red silk linings show at the robes' edges.
label: Label
content: The scene probably represents luxurious goods belonging to a fashionable female entertainer in Kyoto. The garments show the efflorescence of textile decoration that paralleled the popularity of decorated Shino and Oribe wares from Mino. A screen like this one would have been displayed in a house of entertainment or in the home of a warrior or wealthy merchant, where Mino ceramics would also have been used to serve meals and tea.
label: Provenance
content: To 1905
label: Provenance
content: Thomas E. Waggaman (1839-1906), Washington, DC, to 1905 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1905 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Waggaman Collection, American Art Association, New York, NY, January 25-February 3, 1905 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Screen List, pg. 29, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Screens (March 2007 to January 3, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)
label: Exhibition History
content: Kyoto Ceramics (November 9, 1984 to April 25, 1985)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Thomas E. Waggaman (1839-1906)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: American Art Association (established 1883) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: geisha
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1905.17-18
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Gold and color on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (.17): 158.9 x 353.2 cm (62 9/16 x 139 1/16 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (.18): 150.6 x 353.1 cm (59 5/16 x 139 in)