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A Japanese six-panel paper screen
Lot 39

A Japanese six-panel paper screen

MIDDLE LATE EDO PERIOD

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EUR 2,640

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A Japanese six-panel paper screen
Middle late Edo period
Decorated with a Dutchman holding a telescope and a Dutch ship with VOC-flag, with musicians and children at play, mounted in black lacquered frame
173 x 372 cm.

Specialist note

The calligraphy mentions a Dutch ship that has been sailing 13.200 miles and docked after a journey of 9 months and 20 days in the harbour of Nagasaki in the middle of the sixth month.