A JAPANESE SIX-FOLD PAPER SCREEN

£1,000 - £2,000

£1,016

TETSUZAN/HARIYAMA SENSHI (ACT. 1920S)
PLUM TREE ON SILVER LEAF
TAISHŌ ERA, DATED 1924

A Japanese six-fold byōbu (paper screen), sumi ink on silver leaf, painted with a large flowering prunus tree and bamboo sprays issuing from rockwork; a long poem to the side celebrating 'beauty blooming in the cold moonlight', signed Tetsuzan/Hariyama Senshi, 'at the age of seventy-seven', and dated Taisho 13 (1924), 172cm x 372cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, Surrey; purchased from Kathryn Milan Oriental Antiques, Tokyo, 24th September 1996; copies of the certificate of antiquity and invoice are available.