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Poppies
Edo period (1615-1868), mid-late 17th century
Six-panel screen; ink, color and gold on gold leaf showing stands of
poppies in bloom among clouds
56 x 21in (142 x 53cm) each panel, possibly reduced in size
US$40,000 - 60,000
For other seventeenth-century screens of this subject, a favorite of
Tawaraya Sotatsu (active circa 1600-1640) and his followers using the
Inen seal, compare Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, inv. no. 11.1273 and
11.1274, http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/poppies-24483 and
Kyoto National Museum, http://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/91400.
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