Hanging Scroll Depicting a Male Pheasant with Chicks

Description:

Hanging Scroll Depicting a Male Pheasant with Chicks, Japan, Edo period, Kano Tsunenobu (1636-1713),signed "Tsunenobu hitsu" with a leisure seal reading "Tsunenobu," ink and mineral color on silk, with a box titled "Kigishi" (pheasant) and signed "Kano Tsunenobu hitsu" on the cover, painting 14 1/8 x 21 in.
Estimate $100-200

worm eaten marks, deterioration to silk, traces of retouches particularly to the feathers, a tear to top bar of fabric matte.


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