TWO FOLD SCREEN WITH PEONIES, BIRDS, AND WATERFALL
Description
Ancient Japanese double-folding screen featuring a small bird in flight above a blooming peony on the right panel and two ducks on the twisted branch of an old tree on the left one; in the background, red flowers and a waterfall.
Dimensions
61.7 x 145.3 cm
Technique
Ink and natural pigments on paper, fragments of gold leaf (sunago, gold powder).
Period
Late Edo, 19th Century