JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING ON PAPER Circa 1830
Depicts a swimming carp with bulging eyes. 39" x 11".
Provenance: The Symmes / Shiro Kuma Collection.
Exhibited: Monsanto Gallery, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, September 2011.
Literature: Illustrated in the March/April 1986 issue of Southern Accents Magazine
, in an article in the Antiques feature titled "Oriental Scroll Paintings: The Survival of a Delicate Art Form" by Edwin C. Symmes, Jr.
Note: A similar design was used by the lacquer artist Shibata Zeshin.
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