Basket of Peonies
1810 or 1814
- Medium
- color woodblock print; surimono
- Dimensions
- 52.1 × 38.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-194255
A surimono is a privately commissioned print used to announce or commemorate a special event. This picture celebrates an event in the life of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII, whose emblem was the peony. According to Japanese tradition, the peony–one of the flowers of the four seasons–is the flower of summer.
Provenance
Ralph King, 1943.5
Registry history
- 1810 or 1814 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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