Elegant Pastimes
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Antique Japanese screen painting (byōbu) in sumi, colors and flecks of gold leaf (sunago) on gold leaf (kinpaku) applied paper, depicting a Chinese scholars seated about a table by a lake, engaged in writing and painting, two of the four scholarly accomplishments (kinki shoga), while nearby a beautiful woman, with a baby in her arms and a child at her side, stands watching them, and a third child plays in a punt, laden with books and a wine flask (hyotan), pulled up along the shoreline. Origin: Japan Era: Mid 18th Century, Edo (Tokugawa) Period (1615-1868) Dimensions: 37” high x 101” wide Painting 3629 |