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Period: 19th Century
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Ancestor Portraits, Large Size, Framed
Located in Doylestown, PA
A nice pair of Chinese ancestor family group portraits, 19th century, on paper, framed in teak frames under glass. Twelve characters total in per...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Mid 19th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Shioka Sorin (1781-1850)
Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons
Pair of six-panel Japanese Screens. Ink, gofun and pigments on silk.
Dimensions (each screen): H. 91.5cm x W. 285cm (3...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Korean Buddhist Temple Scroll Painting Sinjung T'aenghwa Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Korean Buddhist painting on silk framed in wood with an acrylic shadow box. The type of the painting is known in Korean as Sinjung T'aenghwa (Literally translated as Scroll-s...
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Korean Other Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Acrylic, Wood
19th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Tiger & Dragon by Tani Bunchu.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Tani Bunchu (1823-1876)
Tiger and Dragon
A pair of six-panel Japanese screens. Ink on paper.
In this grand pair of Japanese Ryuko-zu screens the tiger crouches low to the ground, ...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Large 19th Century Chinese Framed Ancestor Portrait, #Ric.P3
Located in Norton, MA
Hand-Painted on silk, Chinese households honor their ancestors in private family rituals, invoking their spirits for long life, health, and prosperity. Commemorative portraits, which...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Glass, Wood, Paint
Tibetan Thangka of Chenresi, Late 19th Century
Located in Chicago, IL
In Buddhist Tibet, patrons and monks commissioned thangka art, or sacred painting, to focus their meditations and prayers. Painted with blue, orange, and red pigments, this 19th century thangka...
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Tibetan Tibetan Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Fabric
Set of Five Chinese Antique Screens Ming Style
Located in Somis, CA
A set of beautiful Chinese antique screens in natural finish. Each of the five screens has a middle section featuring a different flower, symbo...
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Chinese Ming Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Japanese Screen Painting, Early 19th Century, Autumn Flowers by Sakai Hoitsu
Located in Kyoto, JP
A two-fold Japanese screen by the Rimpa school artist Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828), Japan, 19th century, Edo period.
This small Japanese folding screen pai...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Silk
Collection of Five 19th Century Chinese Export Gouache Portraits on Pith Paper
Located in London, GB
A Collection of Five 19th Century Chinese Export Gouache Portraits on Pith Paper
C.1850
Depicting Court Figures in Imperial Dress
Framed and gla...
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Chinese Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Meiji Two-Panel Screen Chinese Country Winter Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Late 19th / early 20th century Japanese Meiji period two-panel folding byobu screen featuring a winter landscape with a Chinese country villa and distant village. Kano School screen ...
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Japanese Meiji Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Large 19th Century Chinese Framed Ancestor Portrait, #Ric.P2
Located in Norton, MA
Hand-Painted on silk, Chinese households honor their ancestors in private family rituals, invoking their spirits for long life, health, and prosperity. Commemorative portraits, which...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paint, Silk
China Fine Antique Chair With Dream Stones And Mother Pearl Inlay
Located in South Burlington, VT
Finest Quality Dreamstone Inlaid Chair
China- an extraordinary prolifically crafted example of an antique hand carved hardwood chair inlaid with multiple natural dream stone "paintings" plus "butterfly and mother of pearl" inlays in its hardwood arms and seat, late 19th century.
This type of old Chinese furniture art form with marble inlay is centuries of years old dating as far back as the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
Fine round and rectangular dream stones depicting mountains and the natural outdoor scenery are inlaid in the seat, back and interior sides of this fine furniture example. Thin marble inlaid stone "paintings" are approximately 1/4" thick and are cut from a large slab of rough material revealing incredible patterns in soft white and gray colors. The hardwood (elmwood) frame is tenon joined. The natural stone "paintings" were hand especially for fine export chairs as in this example.
Chair dimensions:
Height 38.75 inches
Width 25.75 inches
Depth 19 inches
Period : late Qing period, 19th century
Provenance: Private American Chinese collection
Reference: Dreaming of Dreamstones China’s Extraordinary Natural Stone Paintings, Schneible Fine Arts. Dreaming of Dreamstones – World’s first comprehensive English text publication covers China’s extraordinary natural Stone Paintings, by author and dream stone lecturer Douglas Schneible, 35 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-578. See photos.
We have been dealing in authentic Chinese natural stone paintings...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Marble
Edo Period Seasonal Transition Screen
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Edo Period Seasonal Transition Screen
Period: Edo
Size: 368 x 153 cm
SKU: PTA148
This exquisite six-panel screen, adorned with golden flakes, beautifully portrays the seamles...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
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...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Framed Buddhist Painting
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Tibetan Thangka Buddhist painting hand-painted on canvas, created for the veneration of the Three Great Bodhisattvas. Embrace the rich tradition of Tibetan Buddhism with this vibra...
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Tibetan Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Wood
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Pine in Snow
Located in Hudson, NY
Kano School, Mineral pigments on gold leaf with silk brocade border and lacquer wood trim.
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Japanese Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Japanese genuine Woodblock print by Koson Ohara. Meiji period
Located in London, GB
Ohara Koson was a prolific printmaker of the early twentieth century widely known for his kacho-ga, bird and flower prints. During his study with Kason, he took his artist name Koson...
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Japanese Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Edo Period (19th) Japanese antique painting of flowers
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Japanese antique painting of flowers 19 C
Weight 3kg ( 6.6lb)
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Paper
Tibetan Thangka of Vaishravana, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Thangkas are devotional paintings displayed by Buddhists in monasteries, temples, and even their homes. This 19th-century Tibetan Thangka is rich with historical figures and symbolism arranged around the Viashravana in the painting's center. This lesser deity is the god of wealth...
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Chinese Tibetan Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Fabric, Paint
Japanese Antiques 2panels, Heron Folding Screen by Shugo Hotta
Located in Niiza, JP
Made of paper
Unfolded size: 1620 x 1610 mm
Folded size: 810 x 1610 mm D50 mm 5 kg
Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched between 5 mm plywood): 12 CM x 95 CM x 175 CM
Weight 18 ...
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Japanese Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Antique Chinese Export Reverse Painting on Glass
Located in Norton, MA
A charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse glass painting, depicting a noblewoman within a courtyard setting with a kid who is holding a lotus, walkin...
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Chinese Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Large Japanese 6-panel byôbu 屏風 (folding screen) with chrysanthemum garden
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A very colourful and captivating large six-panel byôbu (folding screen) with a refined continuous painting of a luscious flower garden filled with many different types of chrysanthemums (kiku), next to a winding river.
This multi-coloured painting is set on a shiny gold-leaf background, and the chrysanthemum flowers are painted by using shell paste (gofun) in low relief.
Several clutches with a great variety of chrysanthemum flowers are in full bloom and they each show their unique form and colour. Varying from white, red, yellow and pink. The flowers bloom all around and on different kinds of bamboo fences and trellises.
In Japan chrysanthemums are believed to represent happiness, love, longevity and joy.
The panels are surrounded by two silk borders, a thin black one, and a wide brown one. The screen is protected by a black and red negoro’nuri...
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Japanese Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Edo Four Panel Screen Kano School Filial Piety
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Early 19th century late Edo period Japanese four-panel screen depicting examples from the 24 paragons of filial piety. Painted in the Kano School style featuring figures in colorful,...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Lovely Nihonga Scene Meiji/Taisho Period Scroll Japan Artist Landscape Kunii Oyo
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
It is a work drawn by Oi Kunii of the Maruyama school as you can see.
It is a spring (cherry blossom)-colored landscape map that makes you feel a quiet...
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Japanese Meiji Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
19th Century Japanese Screen
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Mid-19th Century Japanese sixfold screen with atmospheric Nanga style painting.
Black ink over gold leaf on paper, of a peaceful mountainous landscape emerging from mist. In the fore...
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Japanese Chinoiserie Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Korean Four Panel Screen of Hunting Scene Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean four-panel folding screen circa 1830s, from the late Joseon Dynasty. The painting depicts a vivid hunting scene on four vertical scroll panels mounted with brocade borders. The four panels are related to each other in narrative but not in an absolutely continuous fashion, therefore they could be viewed individually and independently, which was not uncommon in the screen paintings as they are meant to be folded and unfolded as needed. The pictures show a general on the far left panel seated on a low platform bed...
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Korean Other Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brocade, Wood, Paper
Chinese Burgundy Lacquer Room Dividers, Shanxi, circa 1840
Located in Kastrup, DK
A pair of Qing dynasty wall screens / room dividers crafted from pine with remnants of rich burgundy lacquer.
These screens showcase high-quality joinery with intricate wooden slats ...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Pine
Antique 19th Century Japanese Two-Panel Screen ‘Byobu’, Kano School, Edo Period
Located in London, GB
Japanese Kano School Edo period two-panel screen depicting flowering prunus and bamboo on a rock formation, with colorful birds next to a body of water. ...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Antiques, Reeds and geese, silver folding screens set, ink, by Shoko
Located in Niiza, JP
The material is silver paper.
Unfolded size: 3760 x 1180 mm
Folded size: 470 x 1180 x 105 mm, 7 kg per piece
Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched between 5 mm plywood): 30 CM x...
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Japanese Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830-1895) RBA. Young Girl Portrait
Located in London, GB
Charles Sillem Lidderdale (British, 1831–1895).
There are 10 paintings by this artist in the British National Art Collection. Painting -
A good size measuring 70 cm x 60 cm Frame ...
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British Victorian Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Canvas
Qing Dynasty Period 19th Century Ancestor Group Portrait in Custom Frame
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese Qing Dynasty period painting from the 19th century of an ancestor group portrait in custom frame. Created in China during the Qing Dynasty, this vertical painting features ...
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Chinese Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Canvas, Plexiglass, Wood
China Trade Watercolor Pictures of Junks & Sampans, Set of Five
Located in Downingtown, PA
China trade watercolor pictures of junks & sampans,
Set of Five,
Circa 1850
The Chinese watercolor paintings on pith paper each depict a diffe...
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Chinese Chinese Export Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Late 19th century (Meiji period) painting depicting tiger
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Antique Tiger Painting on Paper – Meiji Period
A striking depiction of a tiger, painted on paper and signed by the artist. This work was originally part of a Japanese byobu folding ...
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Japanese Meiji Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
19th Japanese Screen with Cranes and Pine on a Golden Background
Located in Marbella, ES
Stunning four-panel Japanese screen decorated with a traditional scene of cranes and a majestic pine tree on a gold background. The painting technique highlights the details of the b...
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Japanese Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold, Iron
Big Size Buddhist Painting
Located in Brescia, IT
Painting on natural-colored paper, depicting many characters from the Buddhist pantheon.
These images of Buddha and bodhisattvas depicted stories from Chinese Buddhist scriptures and...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Antique Tibetan Thangka
Located in Greenwich, CT
Antique Tibetan Thangka painted with horse rider in Mountain View
Outside brown fabric with dragons style pattern
Overall size: 27' height. 23" width
Image sizez: 13.3" height. 13...
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Tibetan Tibetan Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Fabric
Pair of Rare Antique Japanese Folding Screens with Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
An amazing pair of matching antique Japanese folding screen predating 1812-1813, most likely from Kano School. Six panels each depict C...
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Japanese Japonisme Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Screen Pair, Tigers by Kishi Renzan, Late Edo Period
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kishi Renzan (1804-1859)
Tigers
Pair of six-panel Japanese screens.
Ink and gold-leaf on paper.
In this monochromatic pair of six-fold Japanese screens painted on gold-leaf, Kishi Renzan has created a breathtaking composition of a family of tigers. The screens are filled with a sense of drama which is conveyed by both the subject matter and the wet, expressive brushwork. The running mountain stream and the towering waterfall allude to refreshment during the summer months and we feel the tiger families familiarity and security within their environment. Renzan’s master, Kishi Ganku...
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Asian Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Fine Asian Brush Painting of Pheasant and Quail
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fined Chinese brush painting of a pheasant and a quail under a plum tree, ink and color on silk, 19th century, Conservation framed
Painting was a scroll acquired from Sotheby's webs...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
A six-panel folding screen depicting a floral and a naturalistic scene
Located in Milano, IT
Six-panel folding screen, made on paper decorated with pigments and gold dust, depicting a floral and naturalistic scene. Among the flowers are blue irises, white lilies, and pink an...
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Japanese Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Early 19th Century Chinese Hardwood, Lacquer and Jade Six-Panel Screen
Located in Austin, TX
A very fine mid-Qing Dynasty Chinese hardwood and lacquer six-panel screen, Jailing Period, circa 1800.
The hardwood frame inset with black lacquer panels. One side features an over...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Coral, Jade
Japanese Edo Four Panel Screen Flowering White Chrysanthemums
Located in Rio Vista, CA
19th century extraordinary Japanese late Edo/early Meiji period four-panel byobu screen featuring flowering white chrysanthemums painted in a moriage (raised pigment) style. The pain...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Japanese Antique Bold Hand-Painted "Two Horses" Silk Scroll, Meiji Period
Located in South Burlington, VT
A bold, spectacular Japanese hand-brushed, hand-painted silk scroll of two horses below plumb tree mountain- worthy of your favorite room
Hand painting on silk in simple soft pleasin...
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Japanese Meiji Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Chinese "Birds and Peony" Ink and Color on Silk Painting, Qing Dynasty, China
Located in Austin, TX
A charming Chinese "Birds and Peony" painting, ink and color on silk, framed and glazed, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century, China.
The delightful and colorful painting features a scen...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Metal
Antique Japanese Buddhist Ink & Color On Silk Painting Amida Triad Buddha
Located in Forney, TX
A beautiful framed antique Japanese School ink and color painting on silk, 19th century, finely detailed and richly colored, depicting Amida Triad, with two Bodhisattva attendants worshipping Buddha, on a gilt arabesque mat, in a black frame.
Provenance / Acquisition:
A Private Dallas Collector
Acquired from the highly reputable auction house Dallas Auction Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Summer Fine Arts and Antiques catalog.
Owned and curated by Reyne Hirsch, a notable media personality and expert in 20th century decorative arts. She's was a top appraiser for Antiques Roadshow...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Metallic Thread
Framed Antique Tibetan Thangka of Yamantaka with Consort
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique Tibetan Thangka with polychrome pigments on cloth, circa mid to late 19th century. It depicts Yamantaka, also known as Vajrabhairava, who is a wrathful manifestation of Manjusri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, and in other contexts he also functions as a dharmapala, or 'Dharma-protector'. The buffalo head deity Vajrabhairava is one of the three principal meditation deities of the Gelug School. He is shown with nine faces in the Yab Yum...
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Tibetan Tibetan Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Textile
Vintage Meiji Period Six Panel Japanese Folding Screen
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A super chic and beautifully done Vintage Meiji Period Six Panel Japanese Folding Screen Depicting Cranes in Continuous Landscape With Blossoming Foliage...
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Unknown Meiji Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Ancestor Painting Qing Dynasty
Located in New York, NY
Qing Dynasty Chinese Ancestor painting. Antique Chinese Ancestor paintings are sought after for their warm colors and traditional pa...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Mid 19th Century Framed Japanese Painting. Grasshopper & Hibiscus.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Obata Tosho (1812-1886)
Grasshopper & Hibiscus.
Late Edo period, mid 19th Century
Framed Japanese Painting. Ink and color on paper.
Individually framed 19th century bird and flow...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Antique Woodblock Print Ukiyo-e Kunisada UTAGAWA (1786-1865) - Geisha with Pa..
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A lovely figural print
Kunisada UTAGAWA (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865) -
Condition
Woodblock in good condition, but the frame is old and broken. Missing underside. The passe partout h...
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Chinese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Edo Six Panel Screen Yoshitsune and Benkei
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular 19th century Japanese late Edo period six-panel byobu screen depicting Yoshitsune and Benkei, two heroes of Japanese folklore. Crafted in ink and natural color pigments on mulberry paper with thick gold leaf borders on each panel. The character Yoshitsune is seated under a blossoming cherry tree in full armor holding a fan. The warrior priest or monk Benkei is depicted kneeling on a leopard skin...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Japanese Edo Two Panel Screen Birds of Prey Hawks
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fascinating Japanese 19th century Edo period two-panel screen depicting two perched birds of prey. Painted in the manner of Chokuan Soga (17th century). Large size byobu screen with ...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
19th Century Ancestor Painting on Cloth
Located in New York, NY
Original 19th Century Ancestor Painting on canvas. In original condition as pictured. Acquired in northern China outside of Beijing. Each wearing Winter Court Hats. In fair condi...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Canvas
Antique Chinese Relief/Carved Screen in Solid Wood & Jade, 135w x 105h
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique Chinese screen having 5 heavily carved panels depicting mythical creatures like Dragons.
Some of the dragons are made out of carved ja...
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Chinese Chinoiserie Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Jade
Japanese Asian Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Landcape Bridge with Iris Flowers
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a nature lake/landscape scene with a water walkway/angular bridge and blossoming iris flowers - perhaps an homage to the famed Irises screens...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Korean Chaekgeori painting. 19th Century Joseon. Books & Scholars’ Accouterments
Located in Kyoto, JP
Books and Scholars’ Accouterments; Chaekgeori
Second half of the 19th century
Korean framed panel. Ink and color on paper.
This Korean Chaekgeori...
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Korean Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
“Kiku Byobu”, a six-panel chrysanthemum folding screen, Rinpa School
Located in Point Richmond, CA
“Kiku Byobu”, a six-panel chrysanthemum folding screen, Rinpa School, Meiji Period (1869-1912).
Painted with several variations of white moriage chrysanthemums interspersed with sma...
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Japanese Meiji Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Painting, Hanging Scroll, 19th Century Bamboo in Moonlight
Located in Kyoto, JP
Bamboo in moonlight
Gamo Rakan (1784-1866)
Hanging scroll, ink on silk.
Dimensions:
Scroll: 201 cm x 58 cm
Image: 137 cm x 45 cm
In this early 19th century work by Gamo Rakan a light ink wash applied to the silk background silhouettes the moon and suggests the atmosphere of early evening. Even though it is a literati subject, Rakan’s bamboo is quite realistic with a strong decorative style. The painting finds its inspiration from Chinese Ming dynasty painters who often used a single-tone, jet black stroke to emphasize the calligraphic nature of bamboo.
In a different era, decorative would have been seen as somewhat unrefined. But increasingly in the Edo period, it was the hallmark of high style. The Japanese people, in particular the rising merchant class, had gradually become apathetic toward the traditional Sesshu and Kano schools of painting. Chinese professional and amateur painters living in the port of Nagasaki during the 18th century had a profound effect on Japanese painting and the freshness of their style and its decorative appeal contributed greatly to its popularity. Gamo Rakan’s teacher, Tani Buncho...
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Japanese Edo Antique 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
