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Antique Japanese Screen by Takada Biichi browse these categories for related items... All Items: Vintage Arts:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Paintings: Pre 1940: item # 832679 Please refer to our stock # ANR2476 when inquiring.
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| Mandarin ducks take flight from a storm washed rocky shore into a golden sky; a large two panel screen by Takada Bi-ichi dating circa 1935. The birds are worked in vivid color, expertly crafted in design consistent with the time. Each panel is 33-1/2 x 69 inches (85 x 175 cm). The mandarin ducks a popular theme in Japanese painting from time immemorial, both for their brilliant frocks and as symbols of marital bliss (it is believed that they choose one mate for life). Performed with pigment and gofun on silk enclosed in a black lacquered wooden frame and backed in patterned silk; please note the frame is too thick to be hung in our standard wall brackets. There are some marks and abrasions (see photos). Bi-ichi was born in Kagawa in 1899 and graduated the Tokyo University of Art. He apprenticed under Kawai Gyokudo and was first accepted into the Nitten National Exhibition in 1926. He was best known for Kacho Bird paintings. | |||||||||||||||
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