SET OF THREE JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTINGS ON SILK BY KANO TANYU (1602-1674) 17th Century 44.25" x 15.25". With kiriwood box and extensive authentication documentation from the Late 18th Century.
Description SET OF THREE JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTINGS ON SILK BY KANO TANYU (1602-1674)
17th Century
Painted in his 64th year. Central scroll depicts poet Li Po riding a mule. Flanking scrolls depict a winter landscape with a pavilion and snow-covered mountains, and a river landscape with trees and towering cliffs. Each signed and seal marked "Seimei".
44.25" x 15.25". With kiriwood box and extensive authentication documentation from the Late 18th Century.
Dimensions 44.25" x 15.25". With kiriwood box and extensive authentication documentation from the Late 18th Century.
Condition Report Generally good condition.
Exhibited Monsanto Gallery, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, September 2011.
Literature Lead illustration 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:
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts compared these paintings with others done at this time in Kano Tanyu's life, including a triptych of pine, plum and bamboo and a landscape of Mount Fuji. These were noted to be of fine quality.
Provenance The Symmes / Shiro Kuma Collection.