Paper Paintings and Screens
to
66
468
118
731
19
9
8
8
7
2
1
1
121
310
300
28
106
60
39
12
9
4
2
3
8
11
5
2
785
759
731
544
504
704
620
478
125
42
759
751
752
3
3
2
2
2
Material: Paper
Japanese Showa Four Panel Screen Fruiting Pomegranate Tree
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Exquisite mid-20th century Showa period four panel folding byobu screen featuring a fruiting pomegranate tree over a dramatic cream toned background. Vivid ink and natural pigment co...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
18th Century Japanese Rinpa Screen. White Chrysanthemums. School of Korin.
Located in Kyoto, JP
School of Ogata Korin
White Chrysanthemums
18th Century, Edo period.
A two-panel Japanese screen. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper.
Dimensions: H. 171 cm x W. 188 cm (67.5” x 74”)
On this two-panel Japanese screen we see blooming chrysanthemums, a flower which embodies the essence of autumn in Japan. Here the traditional floral theme has been simplified and stylized. The bright colors and asymmetrical composition against the delicate gold leaf create a luxurious and ornate work of art. Its background, a strikingly patinated grid of gold leaf, denies any sense of place or time and imbues everything with an ethereal glow. The leaves and stems of the plants are nothing more than pools of mottled color and ink without any outline whatsoever. These are typical Rinpa adaptations of traditional ink painting methods; tarashikomi, or diluted washes of color blended while very wet, and mokkotsu, or “bonelessness,” which creates forms without exterior outlines. The relief work of the rounded flower petals has been obtained by the moriage process (a mixture based on ground shells modeled on the surface of the paper).
On the lower right of the screen, the siganture “Hokyo Korin Jakumyo” and the “Hoshuku” seal can be read. Korin is Ogata Korin, famed for the Irises (Nezu Museum) and Red and White Plum Blossom (MOA Museum of Art) folding screens, both National Treasures. Korin worked in both Kyoto and Edo in the mid-Edo period. Korin was using the art name “Jakumyo” just after he received the Hokyo level, which was in 1701.
This particular screen was published in May of 1961 in the Japanese Sansai Fine Art Magazine*. An in depth article accompanies the photograph of the screen and and a photograph of the signature and seal. This article devotes much of its body to discussing the moriage technique, how it enlivens the chrysanthemum flowers and Korin’s specific skill in using the technique. The article goes on to discuss the most famous works of Korin, utilizing this technique, which were known at the time. Specifically a two-panel screen held in the Honolulu Museum which was discovered in the store-house of Takahashi Soan. A two-panel screen pair which the Nakano family own. A two-panel screen pair with chrysanthemums in moriage in fan designs owned by the Nomura family. Also a small folding screen featuring chrysanthemums held in the Yamato Bunkakan. The article goes on to say that this particular two-fold screen came from the Nijo family. Korin is known to have had a strong connection with the aristocratic Nijo family. The article explains that Korin received a lot of favors from the Nijo family and that this screen would have been gifted to them.
Since that time the Honolulu screen has been amended to ‘attributed to Ogata Korin’ and I do not know further details of the other 3 screens. Other Chrysanthemum screens...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Meiji Two Panel Screen Flowering Autumn Plants
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fascinating Japanese 19th century meiji period two panel folding byobu screen. The screen features flowering autumn plants and grasses: chrysanthemum, brush clover, Chinese bellflowe...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silver Leaf
Antique Indian Mughal Painting of a Couple in Erotic Embrace, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Offered here is a gouache and gold miniature painting on paper of an amorous couple on a veranda set against a mountain and lake background.
The male dressed in a princely attire is ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Vintage Chinese Large Hand Painted Birds and Flowers Fan/ Screen
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1746 Vintage Chinese hand painted oversized fan / screen with colorful flowers and blue birds
Folded size 45x4x3"
Category
1960s Vintage Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper, Paint, Bamboo
Japanese Edo Two Panel Screen Meandering Stream with Birds
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Weathered Japanese late 18th century Edo period two-panel byobu screen depicting a meandering stream with sparrows in flight. Crafted with natural ink and color pigments on mulberry ...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Edo Screen Portraits of the Thirty Six Immortal Poets
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Interesting 19th century Japanese Edo period six-panel byobu screen depicting the thirty six immortals of poetry (Sanjurokkasen). Each portrait is accompanied by their poems. The poe...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Japanese Rare Antique Pair Hand Painted Birds And Blue Waters Wedding screens
Located in South Burlington, VT
A lovely antique pair (2) Japanese hand-painted six-panel folding screens byobu- each conceived in an attractive birds, trees, and blue waters motif. Likely given as a wedding gift...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Stunning Set of Four 19th Century Edo Period Fusuma Door Decorative Panels
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A set of four fusuma (sliding door) panels from the 19th century, painted in ink and colors on gold leaf. The panels depict a blossoming cherry tree extending beyond a woven fence an...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf, Brass
Japanese Chinese Asian 4 Panel Folding Byobu Screen Red Crowned Crane Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese/Chinese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting a landscape scene with a flock of playful red crown cranes (likely Manchurian cranes), a flowing river, an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Mid 19th Century Framed Japanese Painting. Mice & Millet
Located in Kyoto, JP
Obata Tosho (1812-1886)
Mice & Millet
Late Edo period, mid 19th Century
Framed Japanese Painting. Ink and color on paper.
Individually framed 19th century bird and flower paintin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Mid 19th Century Framed Japanese Painting. Snail, Wasp & Hollyhock.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Obata Tosho (1812-1886)
Snail, Wasp & Hollyhock
Late Edo period, mid 19th Century
Framed Japanese Painting. Ink and color on paper.
Individually framed 19th century bird and flow...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Japanese Cherry Blossom Screen by Kano Sanrakuki
Located in Kyoto, JP
Cherry Blossoms
Kano Sanrakuki (1898-1981)
Showa period, circa 1930
2-panel Japanese Screen
Color, gofun and gold leaf on paper
Against a backdrop of gold-leafed ground, the lichen covered trunk and branches of the life-sized cherry blossom tree reach out and beyond the confines of the pictorial surface. The overall composition has a feeling of flatness which draws emphasis to the surface and the three-dimensionality of the cherry blossoms. Painstakingly built-up layers of thickly applied shell-white gofun detail the voluminous blossoms and cover large areas of this tour-de-force of Japanese Nihonga painting. By simplifying the background, minimizing the number of colors and depicting the blossoms with such heavy relief, the artist has emphasized the stunning presence of the cherry tree. The type of tree depicted is the Yae-Zakura; a double-layered type of cherry blossom famed for its beauty and strength. When we think of Japanese cherry blossoms, the first thing that comes to mind is Somei Yoshino variety, which has a single flower with five almost white petals. This type is fragile and easily blown away by strong wind or rain. Most of the double-flowered cherry blossoms begin to bloom when the Somei-Yoshino falls, and the flowering period lasts longer than that of the Somei-Yoshino.
Kano Sanrakuki originally studied painting at the Kyoto City Arts and Crafts School under the tutelage of Yamamoto Shunkyo...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Circa 1700 Japanese Screen Pair, Cranes & Pines, Kyoto Kano School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Pines and Cranes
Anonymous. Kyoto Kano School.
Late 17th/early 18th centuries, circa 1700.
Pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens.
Ink, gofun, pigment and gold leaf on paper.
This bold composition presents two pine trees extending to the left and right across a gold leaf background. One tree is silhouetted against a green ground, golden clouds obscuring its true size, the other stretches across a stylized waterway. The pines are paired with Manchurian cranes with red crests and snow white plumage. Both have been highly auspicious motifs in East Asia since Chinese antiquity. Here the artist utilized fluid and instinctive ink brushstrokes to define the trunk, branches and tail feathers, in strong contrast to the precision and sharp angularity of the crane’s legs and beaks. The adoption of this vast metallic painting support required an unerring sense of design and composition, so that the negative space surrounding motifs could imply context for the otherwise floating pictorial elements. The brushwork detailing the trunks of the pines, the exaggerated dimensions of the pine trees and the strength and dynamism of the composition are all reminiscent of Kano Eitoku...
Category
Late 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Showa Four Panel Screen Prunus with Songbirds
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular late 20th century Japanese Showa period four panel byobu screen depicting blossoming spring prunus or plum trees with songbirds in flight. The screen features a dramatic ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Ancestor Portrait of a Mandarin Dignitary
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Chinese ancestor portrait of a Mandarin Dignitary.
Antique tempera on paper painting of a Mandarin Dignitary wearing a red court dress and s...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
Japanese Asian Signed Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Screen Tales of the Genji
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a scene from the Classic Japanese narrative "Tales of the Genji". The vibrant, rich colors, gold leaf, and beautiful han...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Pair Framed Chinese Watercolor Scrolls
Located in New York, NY
Our pair of antique Chinese watercolor paintings on paper scrolls depicting exotic birds, butterflies and dog date from the late 1...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Antiques 6panels, Gold back, crane and pine, Araki Jippo folding screen
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: gold background paper, wooden frame
One piece: W730 x H1760 mm, unfolded size: W4420 mm, 13 kg
Folded size: W750 x H1760 x D100 mm
Estimated packaging (sandwiched with 5 mm...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Mid 18th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Crows & Pines by Unkoku Toshuku.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Unkoku Toshuku (1722-1779)
Crows and Pines
A pair of six-panel Japanese Screens. Ink and gold leaf on paper.
Dimensions: Each Screen: H. 170.5 cm x W. 375 cm
Haha-cho or mynah birds, whose forms resemble crows in artwork, were commonly depicted in Japanese art. These types of paintings were originally modeled on paintings attributed to the 13th century Chinese painter Muqi (Mokkei), whose art was enormously influential in Japan. Crows only became a theme among Japanese artists from the later 1500s onward. They likely were inspired by these imported Chinese paintings of myna birds, which are not native to Japan, substituting the native species of crow instead.
The best known early examples of the depiction of Japanese crows are two Momoyama screen...
Category
Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Momoyama period Japanese Screen. Crows on Pine. Studio of Hasegawa Tohaku.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Studio of Hasegawa Tohaku (1539-1610)
“Crows on Pine”
Momoyama period. Early 17th Century.
A six-panel Japanese Screen. Ink on paper.
The early 17th century Momoyama period scree...
Category
Early 17th Century Japanese Medieval Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Decorative Chinoiserie Wallpaper Panels
Located in Bradenton, FL
Pair of vintage decorative Chinoiserie panels. Panels feature gold Asian scenery with building, trees and birds on a red background. Each panel is framed in a black wooden frame.
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Asian Signed Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Screen Tales of the Genji
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a scene from the Classic Japanese narrative "Tales of the Genji". The vibrant, rich colors, gold leaf, and beautiful han...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Showa Four Panel Screen Spring Flowers on Gilt
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming mid-20th century Japanese Showa period four-panel folding byobu screen featuring blossoming spring flowers over a bold gilt background. The painting depicts iris, camella, w...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Kiku to Hagi Byobu, Rinpa School Style, Edo Period.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Chrysanthemum and Bush Clover painting on gold leaf six-panel folding screen, painted with clusters of leafy green chrysanthemum plants with white blossoms having moriage relief petals of gofun growing amidst pink blossoming bush clover within a bunched bush clover garden fence rendered in lighter gold relief, all on a background entirely of rich gold leaf. These two flowers are symbolic of Japan and the autumn season. The classic patterned paper verso with a Naga Antiques...
Category
Early 1800s Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chinoiserie Panel Hand Painted Wallpaper on Blue Tea Paper, Accept Custom Size
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you.
The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Floral Chinoiserie Wallpaper Hand Painted Wallpaper on Tea Paper, Accept Custom
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. Measures: 36" Wide x 96" Height
The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs and any base ground (silk, tea paper, metallic, fabric and etc.)
Price
There are 3 panels in the listed photo, price is for 1 panel of 36" wide x 96" high, background is on tea paper. We accept custom size and painting colors.
Dear customer, please note:
For safe delivery, all the panels roll in a strong tube.
Please have the professional installer to install the wallpapers, there is a standard overlap between panels, and a black dot marked on the top and bottom of each panel, please check well before installing.
Shipping
We do our best to process & ship all orders...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Screen Pair, circa 1730, Peacocks and Phoenix, Kano School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Phoenix and Peacocks.
A pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens by Tsunetake Yotei (n.d.)
First half of the 18th century.
The signature reads 67 year old Tsunetake.
The seals read:
-Tsunetake no in,
-Yotei,
-Seishin
Dimensions:
Each screen – H. 69” x W. 149” (176 cm x 378 cm)
A pair of Kano Grand Picture (Waga) screens depicting phoenix and peacocks rich with symbolic meaning. Dating to the first half of the 18th century, from the Kobikicho Kano school in Edo, this pair of folding...
Category
Early 18th Century Asian Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Byobu - Six Panel Japanese Screen
Located in Brescia, IT
This 18th century "Kano school" six-panel screen is truly special. The author is unknown, but his singular genius in portraying these cranes near the water creates an emotion that ca...
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Antiques 2panels, Silver back, Banana? Plants, Rofuu folding Screen
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: Silver paper, wooden frame
One sheet: W870×H1740mm, unfolded size: W1740mm, 5kg
Folded size: W870×H1740×D35mm
Estimated packaging (sandwiched with 5mm plywood): 10cm x 100c...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Early view of India, panoramic mural hand painted wallpapers npanel
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you.
The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Mughal School Indian Miniature Painting of Radha-Krishna
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th-century Indian miniature painting is composed in the Mughal style and depicts a meeting of the Hindu god Krishna and his shakti Radha, also known as the Supreme Goddess. To...
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Flock of Cranes. Ink and color on gold leaf.
Located in Kyoto, JP
A pair of six-fold Japanese screens from the 17th century depicting a flock of cranes arriving at their wintering grounds. The expansive scene is heavily atmospheric. The cranes are...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Screen, Early 20th Century Wagtail & Chrysanthemum by Ishizaki Koyo
Located in Kyoto, JP
Ishizaki Koyo (1884-1947)
Wagtail & Chrysanthemum
Early 20th century
Folding screen in two-panels. Ink, pigments and gofun on gold leaf.
Sign: Koyo
Seal: Koyo
This ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Meiji Four Panel Screen Wild Geese Over Reeds
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Muromachi period inspired Japanese four panel byobu screen depicting wild geese in flight over reeds. The 19th century Meiji period painting bears an artist's signature Chisokuken. C...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Painting on Scroll Paper, China 19th Century, Birds and Nature Decor
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Chinese painting on paper, which is unrolled once hung on the wall. It is a painting that depicts birds in nature, in the style of the 18th c...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair by Soga Nichokuan, Hawks on Pine & Plum Trees
Located in Kyoto, JP
Hawks on plum and pine
Soga Nichokuan (active circa 1625-1660)
Pair of six-fold screens.
Ink, mineral pigments, gofun, gold and speckled gold l...
Category
1640s Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Antique Taisho Period Tanzaku Woodblock Print of Heron at Twilight by Seiko
By Seiko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Taisho period Japanese woodblock print.
Depicting a swooping heron above a riverbed with a thin sliver of a crescent moon in the background.
By Seikо̄. Seikо̄ is tho...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Chinese Asian Large Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Mythical Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, strangely beautiful, unusually engaging, and alluring hand-painted large six-panel Japanese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting an almost magical/ mythical nature scene ...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Byobu - Japanese Folding Screen
Located in Brescia, IT
Nice four-panel Japanese screen painted on vegetal paper, depicting a landscape with a red maple, flowers and birds.
The size is very refined and easy to place in a design project.
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Korean Asian Large Long Life Byobu Byeongpung Shipjangsaengdo Ten Panel Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous, monumental, exceptionally large Korean ten-panel Sipjangsaengdo Byobu folding screen depicting the ten symbols of longevity—sun, mountain, water, rock, cloud,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Korean Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Paint, Paper
Japanese Folding Screen Six Panels Painted on Gold Leaf
Located in Brescia, IT
Paravento a sei pannelli di scuola giapponese Kano: paesaggio con bellissime ed eleganti gru vicino al fiume, con alberi di pino e sakura.
Dipinto a mano con pigmenti minerali ed inc...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Style Four Panel Screen Turquoise River Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Distinctive Japanese style four panel folding Byobu screen depicting a turquoise river mountain landscape. The painting is titled "One Sail Following The Wind" on the top left side. Appears to be a Korean...
Category
20th Century Korean Showa Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Korean Minhwa Painting of Spotted Leopard Snarling Magpie
Located in Greenwich, CT
Korean Minhwa Spotted Leopard Snarling Magpie and another Magpie flying in the pine tree
Minhwa, Korean folk paintings, portray the simple and unaffecte...
Category
Early 1900s Korean Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Chinese Export Watercolor Exotic Bird Paintings on Paper
Located in Downingtown, PA
China Trade watercolor paintings of exotic birds on branches are in watercolor and gouache on Chinese paper.
One picture depicts a pigeon perched on a tree branch with a landscape background. Chinese calligraphy can be seen in the top right corner. The second picture depicts two courting birds in shades of brown, both perched on a branch, also in a landscape background.
Both paintings framed with a green silk mat and contemporary gilt and dark wood frame.
Reference: Chinese Export...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Showa Two Panel Screen Spring Flora and Fauna
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular Japanese Showa period two panel byobu screen featuring spring blossoms, birds, and butterflies. Beautifully detailed iris, lily, rose of sharon, wild pinks, morning glory...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Persian Manuscript Page - Garden Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Persian Manuscript Page depicting a garden scene. Circa 18th century.
Hand painted scene depicts a hilly outdoor landscape where people are congre...
Category
Late 18th Century Persian Islamic Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
17th Century Korean Grapevine and Squirrel Scroll Painting, Mid Joseon Period
Located in Kyoto, JP
Anonymous. Korean, 17th century. Joseon period.
Hanging scroll. Ink on paper.
Seal: Shinso
Dimensions:
Scroll: H. 200 cm x W. 31 cm (79” x 12”)
Image: H. 122 cm x W. 29.5 cm (48” x 11.5”)
The grapevine came to China and then Korea from western Asia via the silk road trade routes. By the mid-Joseon period, it was one of the most popular subjects for Korean literati painters. Grapevines were painted as a singular subject or, less commonly, in combination with squirrels, which are associated with children due to their playful nature. Together, grapevines and squirrels embody wishes for abundant offspring and wealth.
For the Korean literati artist the twisting vines, curling tendrils and round, plump grapes provided ample opportunity for expressive "brush play”. In this painting the artist has abstracted the scene and is seemingly unconcerned with discontinuities and proportion. Vines spring up from nowhere, grapes hang in random clusters and the squirrel’s head appears as if twisted backwards. For the vines and leaves we can feel a sense of speed in the brushstrokes, imparting a dynamic feel which is at once intense and animated. This contrasts dramatically with the countless tiny strokes of ink which realistically capture the texture of the squirrel’s fur...
Category
17th Century Korean Other Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
19th Century Japanese Edo Six Panel Kano School Landscape Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Late Edo period 19th century Japanese six-panel landscape screen featuring a cypress tree over a flowering hibiscus with a pair of hototogisu birds. Kano school painted with ink and ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
B9 Japanese Antiques Silver folding screen, 2panel
Located in Niiza, JP
Unfolded size: 1700 x 1700 x 20 mm
Foldable: 850 x 1700 x 40 mm, 7kg
Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched between 5 mm plywood):
13 CM x 95 CM x 185 CM Weight 20 KG
A beauti...
Category
20th Century Japanese Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Mid-20th Century Chinese Xu Beihong-Style Framed Horse Ink Painting by Xiao Ling
By Xu Beihong
Located in North Miami, FL
Mid-20th century chinese Xu Beihong-style framed horse ink painting by his student Xiao Ling
By: Xiao Ling, Xu Beihong (in the style of)
Material: paper, paint, wood, glass
Techniqu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paint, Paper
B5 Japanese Antiques Silver folding screen, 2-panel set, bamboo, and plum
Located in Niiza, JP
Unfolded size: 1520 x 1530 x 20 mm
Foldable: 760 x 1530 x 40 mm, 5 kg
Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched between 5 mm plywood): 10 CM x 85 CM x 170 CM 22 KG
The pine, bamboo...
Category
20th Century Asian Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Vintage Thai Temple Charcoal Rubbing on Rice Paper
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Thai Temple charcoal rubbing. Hand crafted temple scenes at the Wat Pho temple located in Phra Nakhon district in Bangkok Thailand...
Category
Mid-20th Century Thai Folk Art Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
19th Century Japanese Screen for Tea-Ceremony, Ink Bamboo and Plum on Gold Leaf
Located in Kyoto, JP
Three Friends of Winter
Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871)
Late Edo period, circa 1850
Ink and gold leaf on paper.
This is a double-sided Japanese Furosaki or tea-ceremony screen from the mid 19th century; bamboo and plum on the front, young pines the back. It by Nakajima Raisho, a master painter of the Maruyama school in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. In this work Raisho combines exquisite ink brushwork with large open spaces of brilliant gold-leaf to inspire the viewers imagination. Rather than naturalism, he is searching for the phycological impression of the motifs, resulting in abstraction and stylization. His simplification of the motifs the result of looking to capture the inner nature of the objects. This art motif is known as Sho Chiku Bai, or the Three Friends of Winter. Evergreen pine connotes steadfastness, bamboo suggests both strength and flexibility, while plum blossoms unfurling on snow-laden branches imply hardiness. Combined, this trio is emblematic of Japanese new year. Chinese literati were the first to group the three plants together due to their noble characteristics. Like these resilient plants flowering so beautifully in winter, it was expected of the scholar-gentleman to cultivate a strong character with which he would be able to show the same degree of perseverance and steadfastness even during times of adverse conditions.
The screen would have been placed near the hearth of a room used for the Japanese tea ceremony, shielding the fire from draughts and also forming a stimulating and decorative backdrop behind the tea utensils. It would have been used in the Hatsugama, or first tea-ceremony of the new year.
Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871) originally studied under Watanabe Nangaku before entering the school of Maruyama Ozui. He was the highest ranking Maruyama school painter at the end of the Edo period and was known as one of the ‘Four Heian Families’ along with Kishi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
19th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons
Located in Kyoto, JP
Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons
Pair of six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold on paper.
Second half of the 19th Centur...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Mid 19th Century Framed Japanese Painting. Longhorn Beetle & Poppies.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Obata Tosho (1812-1886)
Longhorn Beetle & Poppies.
Late Edo period, mid 19th Century
Framed Japanese Painting. Ink and color on paper.
Individually framed 19th century bird and f...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
18th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Plum & Young Pines. Kano School.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Dimensions (Each screen): H. 176 cm x W. 378 cm (69’’ x 149’’)
This pair of Japanese folding screens depict blossoming plum trees amongst young pines. They are designed to capture t...
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Edo Six Panel Screen Flowering Morning Glory
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular 19th century late edo period six panel byobu screen featuring flowering morning glory vines (as-agao). Machi-eshi or anonymous town artist painter crafted in an amalgamat...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paper Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
