Two-panel folding screen with plum, birds and mandarine ducks

Japan

Description
A refined, ancient Japanese screen for the Tea Ceremony (furosaki byōbu) depicting two mandarine ducks on a river above which stands a flowered plum on whose twisted trunk two birds are laid; an elegant bamboo fence closes the scene.

Dimension
91 x 185 cm

Features
Ink and colour on gold-leaf paper ground (kinpaku)

Period
Edo, early XVIII century

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