Description
The fuchi is decorated on all sides with dragonflies and maiden flowers. Both are associated with autumn. This is part of a mounted set.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signature] 彫刻 中川一勝; [Transliteration] chôkoku (?) Nakagawa Isshô; [Translation] carved [by] Nakagawa Isshô
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters
