Kano School (Edo period)Flowering Plum
Pair of small wooden door panels for a ship converted into a mid-side two-panel screen, the interior painted in ink, color and gold with golden clouds framing a blossoming prunus branch extending across both panels, the reverse with multiple black-lacquered horizontal slats silhouetted against a gold-leaf ground, with silver and gold inlaid metal fittings and traces of a locking mechanism, the upper exterior corner with a partially legible paper label.
48 1/8 x 38 1/8in (122.5 x 97cm)