Live Auction 6071Japanese Art & Design
A Two-Panel Screen
Lot 133 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A Two-Panel Screen

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Closed16 May 2012

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GBP 39,650

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A Two-Panel Screen
Meiji Period (late 19th century)
The wood frame with inset wood panels decorated in gold, silver, red and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e and nashiji with cockerels and hens among chrysanthemums against the natural woodgrain ground, the lower section with inset wood panels depicting dragons among clouds, the reverse with birds in blossoming cherry branches, the tree inlaid in crushed mother-of-pearl, the wood frame in gold hiramaki-e with flowers and scrolling foliage, gilt copper fittings and hinges engraved with Tokugawa mon and scrolling leaves
171.5 x 190cm.

Specialist note

For a similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum see www.vam.ac.uk museum number 159-1885, which was exhibited in 1883 at the Foreign Exhibition in Boston, Massachusetts and 1884 at the International Health Exhibition in London, from where the Museum purchased it.

The curators note that the surfaces of the cedar wood panels were rubbed down with wet straw and fine sand so as to leave the harder parts of the grain in relief, as in this screen.