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Property of a Lady
An English Private Collection
(Lots 218-226)

217 Y Ф 218 Y Ф
A GOLD-LACQUER AND SHIBAYAMA STYLE AN INLAID IVORY, GOLD-LACQUER AND SHIBAYAMA STYLE
TWO-PANEL FOLDING SCREEN TWO-PANEL FOLDING TSUITATE (TABLE SCREEN)
By Masaaki, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century By Kanemitsu, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Lavishly embellished in typical Shibayama style and inlaid with various The interior elaborately and typically inlaid in Shibayama style with a
materials with a continuous lively outdoor scene of drunken revellers continuous scene of a peacock perched on a rock on the right panel
comprising mainly itinerant performers enjoying the hanami (cherry- and egrets in flight and wading in a stream on the left, all beneath
blossom-viewing) season, above two smaller rectangular gold-lacquer trailing branches of wisteria, flowering cherry and magnolia, shrubs of
panels decorated with six fans enclosing flowers, the reverse with peonies, stalk of irises and kohone (nuphar or spatterdock) above two
sparrows hovering among chrysanthemums growing from behind or smaller rectangular panels with Java sparrows among rose mallows and
against bamboo fences above similarly lacquered gold panels, the thin chrysanthemums draped over bamboo fences, the reverse embellished
borders of the screen lacquered in Gyobu nashiji, the top, bottom and in gold and red togidashi maki-e with pigeons perched on a maple
sides applied with silvered-metal mounts; signed on the reverse in a trees above two smaller panels showing sparrows among maple and
carved red-lacquer reserve Masaaki. ginkgo leaves, the frame engraved with floral sprays and applied with
23.7cm x 21.5cm (9 3/8in x 8½in). silvered-metal engraved mounts; signed on the reverse in gold lacquer
Kanemitsu with a kao. 32.8cm x 31.2cm (12 7/8in x 12 5/16in).
£6,000 - 8,000
JPY910,000 - 1,200,000 £5,000 - 6,000
US$8,500 - 11,000 JPY760,000 - 910,000
US$7,100 - 8,500
Illustrated on page 100.
Illustrated on page 101.
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