Cat Sleeping Under Peonies
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Antique Japanese screen painting in sumi and colors on paper, depicting a cat (neko) sleeping beneath flowering peonies (botan), the composition balanced at left by cluster of flowering bush clover (hagi),
Chinese bellflowers (kikyo), patrinia (ominaeshi) and pampas grass (susuki, alternately obana), a detail mounted in two panel folding format (byōbu) with paper hinges, textile border and wooden molding.
Origin: Japan Era: early 19th Century Dimensions: 34.75” high x 42.00" wide Painting 3658 |