19TH CENTURY

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A large and impressive lacquer screen with stand, tsuitate
19th Century
Decorated in ivory, aogai, wood and coral inlays, gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie, fundame, nashiji, kirigane and other techniques, the rectangular panel depicting three of the Seven Gods of Felicity (Shichi-fuku-jin), Benten holding a lute between Jurojin unfolding a scroll and Bishamon in full armour, to the background a rocky landscape with a waterfall and pavilions, the border painted with cloud scrolls on a nashiji ground and applied with precious emblems between raised wood borders inlaid in copper-gilt wire with a fretwork pattern, the corners with kanagu engraved and in relief with floral patterns, the reverse decorated with wood-ground shaped panel depicting a basket of flowers placed on a two-wheel cart, reserved on a gold zigzag pattern ground enriched with roundels, the wood stand carved and pierced with flowers and the Seven Sages, some losses and damage
185.5 cm. high (including stand), 114 cm. wide

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Lot Essay

The late Jonkheer Ir Adriaan Stoop (1856-1935) was a mine engineer and pioneer in the oil industry of the former Dutch East Indies. He was founder of the Dordtsche Petroleum Maatschappij which was taken over by De Koninklijke Shell in 1911. After returning to Holland from Indonesia, he settled in Bloemendaal and pursued his interest in art. See H. van Voorst Vader-Duydinck Sander, Leven en laten Leven, een Biografie van Ir Adriaan Stoop (1856-1935), Haarlem, 1994. He bought the above screen at a sale in Amsterdam, A. Mak (Ancienne Maison D.F. Roos and Cie.), 27-29 January, 1920, (lot 187) from the Collection Sakura, Tokyo. According to the french description in the catalogue, there were only two examples made of this screen ...' celui qui vient d'être décrit, et celui qui fut vendu à l'Exposition Universelle de Paris pour la somme de Frs. 36.000,-'.
At the outbreak of Second World War, the descendants of Adriaan Stoop gave the screen out on loan to the Museum van Volkenkunde, Leiden, for more than 60 years.

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