Kakejiku, Scroll - Silk - Bunchô - Painting in subtle colors, depicting a pleasant scene in nature with an apricot tree in bloom - Japan - Late Edo - Meiji period
Hanging scroll (kakejiku) with a polychrome painting in subtle colors, depicting a Japanese apricot tree in bloom (ume) , a tree peony shrub (botan) with large pink flowers, bamboo stalks and a bird. Some horizontal wrinkles and loose part of the mounting on the right top side of the painting. Mounted on a nice blue brocade with repeating abstract woven motives in gold thread. Signed: “painted by Bunchô”. H. : 142. 5 cm; W. : 82. 7 cm.
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Hanging scroll (kakejiku) with a polychrome painting in subtle colors, depicting a Japanese apricot tree in bloom (ume) , a tree peony shrub (botan) with large pink flowers, bamboo stalks and a bird. Some horizontal wrinkles and loose part of the mounting on the right top side of the painting. Mounted on a nice blue brocade with repeating abstract woven motives in gold thread. Signed: “painted by Bunchô”. H. : 142. 5 cm; W. : 82. 7 cm.
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