Distributing Food

Tsubaki Chinzan

Edo period (1615-1868), About 1850

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Nestled into mountains by the water are a complex of buildings devoted to silk production. Spinning, dyeing and reeling the silk is portrayed inside and outside the buildings.
A standing figure of Lakshmi with four arms. Attributes she is holding include a rosary and a lotus in her uppermost arms. Elaborate crown and jewelry. Lower right hand is missing.
Buff pottery vessel with three swelled legs that end in small blunt points, body has a crinulated band around its girth, and tall, slender spout that ends in trefoil mouth rim, handle connecting middle of body to middle of neck
Multi-Colored patchwork Wrapping Cloth (Bojagi)