17th Century Two-Fold Paper Screen
17th Century Two-Fold Paper Screen
Japan
1624 to 1649
ink on paper
The screen depicts a black lacquer shodana (display cabinet) with shelves holding scholars’ objects and an ikebana arrangement of tsubaki (camellia) and grasses in a basket.
The right hand panel shows a young man resting on a Chinese-style red and gold lacquer box. To the side of him is a bronze flower vessel containing an ikebana arrangement of kuri (Japanese chestnut).
A screen with an almost identical design is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
ink on paper
Dimensions
189.00cm wide 162.90cm high (74.41 inches wide 64.13 inches high)
Description / Expertise
Painted in ink and colour on a gold ground.The screen depicts a black lacquer shodana (display cabinet) with shelves holding scholars’ objects and an ikebana arrangement of tsubaki (camellia) and grasses in a basket.
The right hand panel shows a young man resting on a Chinese-style red and gold lacquer box. To the side of him is a bronze flower vessel containing an ikebana arrangement of kuri (Japanese chestnut).
A screen with an almost identical design is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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