Screen
ca. 1670-1700 (made)
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Six-panelled screen. Overall landscape design with buildings, figures, trees, birds and monkeys. Figures depicted include : those fishing at a river; a man walking with a stick; a man carrying a bag on a stick and women in brightly coloured clothing sitting by a river. There are gold houses on hills, trees with monkeys sitting among the branches, an owl in a tree, birds in the air and flowers with their petals made up of shell. The images are mostly gold, silver or red on the dark lacquer ground. Each panel is attached to the next with metal foil and stud hinges.
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Materials and techniques | Wood, covered in black lacquer, with gold, silver and red <i>hiramaki-e</i> lacquer, and metal foil, studs and shells |
Brief description | Wood six-panelled screen covered in black lacquer, with gold, silver and red lacquer, decorated with a landscape scene, Japan, ca. 1670-1700. |
Physical description | Six-panelled screen. Overall landscape design with buildings, figures, trees, birds and monkeys. Figures depicted include : those fishing at a river; a man walking with a stick; a man carrying a bag on a stick and women in brightly coloured clothing sitting by a river. There are gold houses on hills, trees with monkeys sitting among the branches, an owl in a tree, birds in the air and flowers with their petals made up of shell. The images are mostly gold, silver or red on the dark lacquer ground. Each panel is attached to the next with metal foil and stud hinges. |
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Object history | The screen may have come from the collection at Hamilton Palace, which included many pieces previously owned by William Beckford (1760-1844) including the Van Diemen box and the Mazarin Chest. |
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Bibliographic reference | Oliver Impey, The Art of the japanese Folding Screen, Ashmolean Museum, 1997 |
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Accession number | FE.50-1980 |
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Record created | May 9, 2000 |
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