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A SUPERB KANO SCHOOL SIX-PANEL ‘FLOWER CARTS (HANAGURUMA)’ BYOBU (FOLDING SCREEN)
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06月12日 晚上7点 开拍 / 06月10日 下午3点 截止委托
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A SUPERB KANO SCHOOL SIX-PANEL ‘FLOWER CARTS (HANAGURUMA)’ BYOBU (FOLDING SCREEN)

Japan, late 17th to early 18th century, Edo period (1615-1868)

Ink, watercolors, gouache, gold paint, and gold leaf on paper. Mounted on silk brocade on six lacquered wood panels with metal fittings, set upon an additional sage-green painted wood stand, ideal for presentation; the joints affixed with hinges. Finely painted with three ornate wooden carts bearing abundant seasonal flower arrangements, two in woven wicker vases and one in a large bronze vessel, including chrysanthemums (kiku), irises (shobu), lotus (hasu), and morning glories (asagao), set amid verdant foliage.

SIZE 137.4 × 287.4 cm

Condition: Very good condition with wear, minor soiling, light flaking and rubbing, and small losses to the gold leaf with associated touchups. The back with traces of wear and use and the hinges slightly loose.

The Kano school of painters was an artistic group composed of Kano male relatives as well as talented students who were granted the family name. The Kano school provided paintings for temples and palaces in Japan’s capital cities for generations. The artists prided themselves on their knowledge of Chinese painting styles, which they adapted for Japanese tastes.

In Japan, cut flowers were first used as offerings on Buddhist altars but toward the end of the fourteenth century flower arrangements in tall bronze vases (initially imported from China) became popular among the court and military aristocracy, either as decorations for elite mansions designed in shoin-zukuri style or as a key component of gift exchange during high-level formal visits. Under the influence of the Ikenobo school, these arrangements took on increasingly elaborate forms: sometimes a single vase might contain more than one hundred floral sprays which had to be transported through the streets of Kyoto in hanaguruma (flower carts). During the Edo period, these became a popular subject for screen paintings.

Museum comparison:
Compare a closely related pair of six-panel byobu (folding screens) depicting five ornate flower carts (hanaguruma), dated 17th century, 154.5 x 364.2 cm (each), in the Tokyo National Museum, institutional reference number A-1459. Compare a six-panel byobu (folding screen) depicting a flower cart, dated early 18th century, 170 x 366 cm, in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, accession number AS13.a-b-1994.

Auction comparison:
Compare a closely related later six-panel byobu (folding screen) depicting a single ornate flower cart, dated 19th century, 156.2 x 358.1 cm, at Bonhams, Fine Japanese Works of Art, 22 March 2011, New York, lot 3317 (sold for USD 7,930 or approx. EUR 10,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).

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