Buddhist Priest’s Robe (Kesa) with Narcissus Design
1749
Physical Qualities
Silk, gold-leafed mulberry paper strips, 46 × 81 in. (116.8 × 205.7 cm.)
Mount (with plexi cover): 50 3/4 × 86 × 2 3/8 in. (128.9 × 218.4 × 6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth F. Cheney, Oak Park, Illinois
Object Number
1980.195
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1980; Elizabeth F. Cheney, Oak Park, Illinois, by purchase; Marshall Field & Company, Chicago
Anita Jones and Frances Klapthor, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Robes of Deliverance: Ritual Garments of the Buddhist Priests of Japan," September 1, 1999-February 27, 2000
Frances Klapthor, "The Way of Nature: Art from Japan, China, and Korea," Baltimore Museum of Art, September 21, 2025-March 1, 2026
Frances Klapthor, "The Way of Nature: Art from Japan, China, and Korea," Baltimore Museum of Art, September 21, 2025-March 1, 2026
BMA Today, August/September 1999, ill. p. 9.
