Flower Arranging

Art Institute of Chicago

Flower Arranging

Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739-1820)LinkedCulture matchlcp-563e49b3ca22

Date
c. 1769
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban
Culture
Japan
Department
Arts of Asia
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
22426

Two young girls are shown arranging flowers, likely preparing for an important guest. One places an arrangement including irises and pinks in a jar hanging on the pillar next to a scroll painting. The other is cutting the stem of a chrysanthemum to place in the jar before her.

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Clarence Buckingham Collection
Provenance
William Henry Ketcham, New York; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Dec. 1897; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

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AAT300041273

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