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19c doll screen - bird and flower browse these categories for related items... All Items: Japanese: Paintings: Screens: Pre 1900: item #817967
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| A small six-fold doll or hina screen from the 19th century. A wonderfully interwoven composition, rich in symbolism, color and movement. Clouds cloak the background, their edges defined by sprinkled tsunago or gold flecks. The flow of the stream is mimicked by the blooming plum tree whose weighty trunk anchors the scene. A variety of bird-life intersperses the landscape adding movement and a sense of immediacy. Plum blossoms symbolize early spring and often the innocence of youth, bamboo longevity and endurance and the regal pheasant is a male symbol of prosperity. All highly auspicious symbols for a boy's day screen. Painted on paper with ink, gofun pigment and tsunago, the screen is in fair original condition. It is completely ready to be hung as is or framed. Fully expanded the screen measures 47.5 inches across and stands just under 18 inches high. | |||||||||||
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