Four-panel Table Screen

Description:

Four-panel Table Screen, Japan, late Edo period, depicting fourteen boys and girls at play in four groups of two to five, including a boy in Mongol costume and boy monks, painted in Kano style using mineral pigments on a blank gold-leaf background, ink, color, and gold on paper, overall painting 11 3/4 x 50 1/2 in.
Estimate $700-900

overall minor buckling, loss of details from flaking pigments and gold, deterioration to washi paper.


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