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A Shibayama-style ivory two-leaf table-screen
inlaid in mother-of-pearl, wood, stained ivory and horn with an eagle perched among flowering cherry blossom and wisteria, and birds in flight before a shrine in the distance, above two panels depicting butterflies among a jar and a vessel beside flowers, the reverse carved with ladies picking flowers -- 9¾.in (24.8cm) high, (beak missing from eagle).
See Colour Plate.
inlaid in mother-of-pearl, wood, stained ivory and horn with an eagle perched among flowering cherry blossom and wisteria, and birds in flight before a shrine in the distance, above two panels depicting butterflies among a jar and a vessel beside flowers, the reverse carved with ladies picking flowers -- 9¾.in (24.8cm) high, (beak missing from eagle).
See Colour Plate.