19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF FOUR SILK-THREAD-WRAPPED BAMBOO HANGINGS
19TH CENTURY
Each decorated with vertical landscapes of birds and flowers created by wrapping silk thread around the individual spotted bamboo laths to form the composition, one with a single crane standing by a pine tree, one with swallows admidst bamboo and prunus, one with a pair of pheasants by tree peony, and one with kingfishers amidst chrysanthemum, with details painted primarily in white and yellow pigment
Each 66¾ x 21 in. (170 x 53.5 cm.) (4)

Lot Essay

A large 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, such as the present lot, were included in the exhibition, Min shin no bijustu (Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasty), Osaka Municipal Art Museum, 1980, p. 59, no. 3-31.

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