Lot details Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) The screen comprising two hinged panels opening both ways so either side can be presented as the front, each panel divided into two sections framed in gold nashiji, kirigane, and fundame, the kinji ground inlaid with mother-of-pearl, horn, coral, tortoiseshell, and bone, the top sections depicting to one side a multitude of anthropomorphic, frolicking animals engaged in various pursuits and acrobatic feats, including two mice destroying a game of go, a cat pounding mochi, a bat fanning a teakettle, a rabbit serving tea, another hare smoking a pipe, a dog being lifted into the air by a bat, a group of rats playing musical instruments, and another attempting to steal a puppy’s brocade ball, the lower sections decorated with scholar’s objects including scrolls, vases, a censer, a figure of Kannon, a scepter, a flywhisk, and a scholar’s rock. The other side is similarly inlaid and further decorated in iro-e hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with a humorous and chaotic scene sparked by a hawk lifting a sarumawashi’s helpless monkey as numerous bystanders, young and old, watch in shock and awe, surrounded by blossoming cherry trees and leafy chrysanthemums, above the two smaller sections similarly decorated with Mandarin ducks in a pond with various flowers. HEIGHT 25.5 cm, WIDTH 25.3 cm Condition: Good condition with minor wear, the side with the frolicking animals with a few losses to inlays, the other side with absolutely no losses to inlays whatsoever. Provenance: French private collection. This remarkably detailed and very amusing screen has certainly been inspired by Kawanabe Kyosai’s animal circus, which in turn was inspired by the famous Choju-jinbutsu-giga scrolls (literally "Animal-person Caricatures"), dating to the 12th century and housed in the Toyo National Museum. Auction comparison: Compare a closely related Shibayama style gold lacquer two-panel screen by Masaaki, 23.7 x 21.5 cm, at Bonhams, Fine Japanese Art, 17 May 2018, London, lot 217 (sold for 11,250 GBP).
Lot details Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) The screen comprising two hinged panels opening both ways so either side can be presented as the front, each panel divided into two sections framed in gold nashiji, kirigane, and fundame, the kinji ground inlaid with mother-of-pearl, horn, coral, tortoiseshell, and bone, the top sections depicting to one side a multitude of anthropomorphic, frolicking animals engaged in various pursuits and acrobatic feats, including two mice destroying a game of go, a cat pounding mochi, a bat fanning a teakettle, a rabbit serving tea, another hare smoking a pipe, a dog being lifted into the air by a bat, a group of rats playing musical instruments, and another attempting to steal a puppy’s brocade ball, the lower sections decorated with scholar’s objects including scrolls, vases, a censer, a figure of Kannon, a scepter, a flywhisk, and a scholar’s rock. The other side is similarly inlaid and further decorated in iro-e hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with a humorous and chaotic scene sparked by a hawk lifting a sarumawashi’s helpless monkey as numerous bystanders, young and old, watch in shock and awe, surrounded by blossoming cherry trees and leafy chrysanthemums, above the two smaller sections similarly decorated with Mandarin ducks in a pond with various flowers. HEIGHT 25.5 cm, WIDTH 25.3 cm Condition: Good condition with minor wear, the side with the frolicking animals with a few losses to inlays, the other side with absolutely no losses to inlays whatsoever. Provenance: French private collection. This remarkably detailed and very amusing screen has certainly been inspired by Kawanabe Kyosai’s animal circus, which in turn was inspired by the famous Choju-jinbutsu-giga scrolls (literally "Animal-person Caricatures"), dating to the 12th century and housed in the Toyo National Museum. Auction comparison: Compare a closely related Shibayama style gold lacquer two-panel screen by Masaaki, 23.7 x 21.5 cm, at Bonhams, Fine Japanese Art, 17 May 2018, London, lot 217 (sold for 11,250 GBP).
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