1890s Paintings and Screens

A japonisme watercolor painting entitled “The Great Blue Heron,” circa 1890s. Signed: C. Honsberg. sight: 16 ½ by 35 ½ inches frame: 20 by 39 inches

Late 1800's "The Daisy Chain" original painting, framed oil on canvas. Signed J. S. Eland lower right corner. Also signed on the back in pencil with name of piece and looks like a ...

Suzuki Shonen (1848-1918) Aged Dragons Meiji period (1868-1912). Circa 1900. A pair of six-panel Japanese screens. Ink and gold leaf on paper. As with the pair of Shonen pine scr...

An elegant and delightful Japanese woodblock print triptych (sammaitsuzuki) from the series "Pictures of Ladies' Etiquette" by Toyohara (Yoshu...

Gorgeous antique Victorian oil painting of a country cottage interior scene The piece is signed by Victorian artist A Barclay 1891 Del...

Autumn Grasses Anonymous Six-fold Japanese screen. Ink, pigment, gofun and silver-leaf on paper Inscription: Unsen Hitsu  Seal: Unread The waving grasses of autumn appearing on an unobstructed horizon are usually associated with the Musahino Plain. Once wild, the plain of Musashi is now a densely populated area of Northern Tokyo. Poetic traditions, dating back to the tenth century, associate the vast plain with the season of autumn. Typically the moon is featured in the artwork though here, the shimmering silver leaf preserves a coolness that evokes moonlight on an autumn evening. By staggering and overlapping the grasses and adding partially obscured autumn wildflowers throughout, the artist achieves a surprising degree of spatial depth within the constraints imposed by the screens’s flat, gilded surface. Painted directly onto the gilded paper, the scene required vigorous, demanding brushwork to create the compositional tension and balance. Although the artist remains anonymous both the subject matter and techniques find strong parallels within the Rinpa school of art. The Rinpa school represents the fullest expression of the highly decorative approach to nature painting in Japan. Rinpa is regarded by some as “quintessentially Japanese,” especially when compared with Japan’s Chinese-influenced schools of painting. In this work the artist the artist has painted entirely without outlines using the ‘mokkotsu’ or boneless technique. The artist has also made use of the ‘tarashikomi’ pooling technique for the flowering kudzu vine...

- Stunning Victorian oil painting of a clock maker - Wonderful antique work of art, delightful scene - Horologist show tending lovingly to the...

Antique rectangular canvas with storks embroidery and oriental landscape, 1800s Rectangular frame with wooden and plaster frame. Embroidered and depicting storks in a landscape with...

Animated scenes painted on paper. The paper is stretched over a wooden frame , A fabric is stretch over the back of the painting on he wood frame. Second part of 19th century. V...

Meiji period, a perfect example of a Japanese screen with classical Rinpa school panels. This beautiful variety of flowers is painted with mineral pigment...

A highly decorative antique Chinese folding lacquer screen. 19th century, circa 1890. Depicting Imperial figures in a landscape of rockwork, flowering trees and horses. Apparently showing confronting Mandarins in the process of negotiating a settlement, over an opened treasure chest on a horse-drawn chariot. The reverse decorated with a landscape of trees, birds and peonies. The latter are of great symbolic significance in China. Sometimes referred to as “The King of Flowers” - the traditional flower symbol of China - peonies were valued in the ancient Imperial Chinese Palaces. There is much use of semi-precious hard stones inlaid in the rockwork background, with animated faces beautifully carved in ivory. Popular in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). This folding Chinese screen...

From an important thirty year old New England collection of Arts & Crafts furnishings. Four unique works of art, circa 1890. This is a bea...