AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF SILK-THREAD-WRAPPED BAMBOO HANGINGS
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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF SILK-THREAD-WRAPPED BAMBOO HANGINGS

18TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF SILK-THREAD-WRAPPED BAMBOO HANGINGS
18TH CENTURY
Each decorated with various 'antiques' created by wrapping silk thread around the individual split spotted bamboo laths to form the scholar's objects
72 x 43¼ in. (183 x 110 cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

A larger horizontally formatted split bamboo blind decorated in the same technique, but with a formal scroll design, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was sold in these rooms, 20 - 21 March 1997, lot 210. Two vertical blinds (from a set of five) dated to the Qing dynasty and decorated in the same technique, in a manner more similar to paintings, with cranes and a long-tailed bird, were included in the exhibition, Min Shin no Bijutsu (Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasty), Osaka Municipal Art Museum, 1980, p. 59, no. 3-31.

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