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IVORY, INLAID IVORY AND
WOOD OKIMONO WORKS OF ART
Property from an English Private Collection
(Lots 279-303)

279TP Y Ф
A LACQUERED WOOD, IVORY AND SHIBAYAMA
INLAID FOUR-PANEL SCREEN
By Kobayashi, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Boldly decorated on one side in high relief and inlaid in typical
Shibayama style with a majestic peacock perched on flowering
branches, flanking the two inner panels decorated with butterflies and
sparrows hovering beneath entwined branches of trailing wisteria, all
within a hardwood frame carved with writhing dragons and frolicking
shishi, signed on one panel Kobayashi within a pot-shaped seal; the
reverse carved with repeated sparrows flying among flowering camellia
on a red-lacquered ground.
203cm x 268cm (80in x 105½in).

£8,000 - 10,000
JPY1,100,000 - 1,400,000
US$9,900 - 12,000

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