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A TWO-PANEL LACQUER SCREEN
By Banura Shogo (1901-1982), dated 1944
Decorated in colored lacquer and thin strips
of shell against a mottled red-brown ground
with a pumpkin on a vine and a large radish,
the reverse with pumpkins and eggplants
executed by scratching the design in the
green-lacquer ground while still wet and
revealing the white undercoat, sealed
Shogo and signed in black lacquer on the
reverse Koki 2604 Dai Toasenka Shogo
kinsaku (Respectfully made by Shogo during
the 2604th year of the Imperial reign in the
Great East Asian war)
40 3/4 x 38 1/2in (103.5 x 97.7cm)
$3,500 - 4,500

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A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE
LACQUERED AND CARVED TWO-
PANEL WOOD SCREEN
Meiji era (late 19th century)
Each panel elaborately carved with deeply
undercut and pierced high-relief designs of
Momotaro wrestling an oni and his attendants
subduing the monster’s retinue, both scenes
framed by elaborate iris and chrysanthemum
borders at top and sides, with turtles in
waves framing the lower registers, each
lower register containing two carp swimming
determinedly against the current, the panels
both enhanced by red, black, yellow, gold,
silver and brown lacquer details and inlaid
colored stones, the monkey with a separately
carved tachi slung at his waist, the reverse
with clouds and waves, the panels now each
set on a pair of wheels
77 1/2 x 32 1/2in (196.8 x 82.6cm) (each panel)
$8,000 - 10,000

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