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A TWO-PANEL FOLDING SHIBAYAMA AND LACQUER SCREEN
INLAID WITH BONE AND IVORY
Meiji
Both panels decorated in high relief with a continuous scene of
an ornate basket containing an ikebana (flower arrangement) of
spring and autumnal blooms suspended above a stream on the left
panel and three sparrows flying beneath trailing branches of cherry
blossoms, with rose mallows and lilies issuing from the banks of a
stream in the foreground, framed within a blue-lacquered ground
border decorated in gold hiramaki-e with floral and stylised bird
medallions, above smaller wood panels carved with carp, the left
panel signed with ivory seal, the reverse painted with a flowering
cherry tree on a red-lacquered ground,
184cm x 171cm

£700 - 900

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