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Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th centuryA four-panel folding screen, ink, mineral colours, gofun (calcified crushed shell), gold paint, and gold leaf on paper within a silk-brocade surround within a lacquered-wood frame, depicting a cherry tree with a magnificent display of yaezakura (many-petalled blossoms), some in flower, some still in bud, growing by a brushwood fence supported by strips of knotted bamboo, the tree's trunk encrusted with moss executed in rokusho (malachite), the blossoms in thick applications of gofun, the fence embellished with squares of kirikane (gold foil); unsigned. Overall: 155.4cm x 283.8cm (61 3/16in x 111 7/8in); image: 147.6cm x 276cm (58 7/8in x 108 5/8in).