PAIR OF JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTINGS ON SILK BY KANO MASANOBU (1625-1694) 17th Century Both 43.5" x 19". With extensively inscribed double-lined kiriwood box.
Description PAIR OF JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTINGS ON SILK BY KANO MASANOBU (1625-1694)
17th Century
Depict a fierce dragon with sumiboku embellishments, and a tiger emerging from a bamboo grove. Both signed and seal marked.
Both 43.5" x 19". With extensively inscribed double-lined kiriwood box.
Dimensions Both 43.5" x 19". With extensively inscribed double-lined kiriwood box.
Condition Report Generally good.
Exhibited Monsanto Gallery, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, September 2011.
Note:
Kano Masanobu was the son-in-law of Kano Tanyu.
Provenance The Symmes / Shiro Kuma Collection.