JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART 23 march 2022

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PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS
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UNKNOWN ARTIST
Chinese Landscape
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century
A six-panel folding screen in ink on paper of a Japanese painter’s
interpretation of a mountainous Chinese landscape, the mountainsides
carved out by waterfalls and dotted with structures and the occasional
traveler on the winding paths; misty mountains in the distance
occupying the background, and boats floating on the lake in the
center of the composition; gold flake sprinkled on the surface may be
a later addition; sealed Shubun and Gakuo
59 1/2 x 138 1/2in (151.1 x 351.8cm)
$7,000 - 9,000
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KANO SCHOOL
Azure-Winged Magpies on a Blossoming Plum Tree
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
A full-size six-panel folding screen painting in ink, colors, gold, and
gold leaf on paper showing a pair of azure-winged magpies (onaga),
one in flight and the other perched upon the gnarled and lichen-covered
trunk of a flowering plum tree with early spring flowers and plants at the
roots, the tree backgrounded by brushwood expressed through raised
gold relief paint, the rest of the composition occupied by gold-leaf
clouds and rippling water in blue mineral pigment; unsigned
60 1/2 x 142 1/4in (153.7 x 361.3cm)
$7,000 - 9,000
Provenance
A label on the reverse of the screen indicates provenance of Naga
Antiques of New York, New York
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