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Six-panel folding screen depicting a wooded landscape, Japan…
See original version (French)
200
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Six-panel folding screen depicting a wooded landscape, Japan…
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,800 - €2,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Six-panel folding screen depicting a wooded landscape, Japan, Edo period, 19th century
Pigments, gofun and gold leaf on paper. This large six-panel Japanese folding screen features a continuous design set against a luminous, patinated gold background. The landscape is centred around two main trees, whose branches intertwine elegantly at the top. A weeping willow, recognisable by its long, slender green twigs that hang vertically, extends its branches towards a Japanese cherry tree with a sturdier, gnarled trunk, covered in a dense display of small white blossoms. These cascades of flowers and foliage converge and blend at the top, creating a natural canopy suspended above the ground. The lower part of the composition is traversed by a winding earthen embankment. At the foot of the sturdiest trunk, on the right, a bush of Japanese camellias (tsubaki) blooms with bright red flowers and dark foliage, surrounded at its base by clumps of dwarf bamboo. The whole scene is framed by a fabric border with geometric patterns and a black lacquered wooden border.
133 x 275 cm
Flaws.
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