Screen
19873.1
From: Japan
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 19873.1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Japanese | Buddhist |
| Provenience | Japan |
| Locus | Buddhist temple |
| Period | Edo Period |
| Date Made | 17th Century - 18th Century |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Wood | Gilt |
| Technique | Gilded |
| Iconography | Peony |
| Description | Large carved and gilded wooden screen (tsuitate, 衝立) with archway in it in the style of a kato mado (火頭窓) from a Buddhist Temple. This temple screen, of carved and gilded wood, measures about ten feet in length and six feet in height. Its frame is of gold lacquer. In the center are two sliding lattices (19873.4 & 19873.5), surrounded by elaborate gilded carvings of peonies, to which two representations of the Ho-o bird are applied (19873.6 & 1983.7). Similarly carved and gilded dragons are attached to the base (19873.8 - 10). From the character of the decoration it is to be inferred that the screen was made for one of the imperial temples in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries. |
| Credit Line | Purchased from G. T. Marsh and Co; subscription of Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 19873A - Old Museum Number | CG2000-1-31 - Found in Collection Number |
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