A JAPANESE SIX PANEL FLOOR SCREEN
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A JAPANESE SIX PANEL FLOOR SCREEN

SIGNED UNKOKU TOSON (1759-1810), INK, COLOR, AND SILVER LEAF ON PAPER

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A JAPANESE SIX PANEL FLOOR SCREEN
SIGNED UNKOKU TOSON (1759-1810), INK, COLOR, AND SILVER LEAF ON PAPER
Depicting birds amongst branches in a landscape
64¾in. (164.5cm.) high, 145in. (368.2cm.) wide, overall
Provenance
Anonymous Sale; Christie's, New York, 20 March 2007, lot 104.
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Lot Essay

Toson became a monk in 1774 and changed his name from Matashiro to Toson, the name that he used to sign this screen. For other paintings by Toson, see Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, ed., Unkokuha no keifu - Sesshu no kokeisha tachi/Unkoku School - The Successors of Sesshu Style (Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1986), no. 58, reference plates 66 and 67.

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