Cranes and Chicks Under Flowering Plum
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Antique Japanese screen-painting in sumi and colors on gold leaf (kinpaku) applied paper, depicting a red-crested crane (tanchosuru) and a white-naped crane (mansuru) - with a pair of hatchlings at their feet - standing on a shoreline beneath the branches of a flowering plum (ume) with billowing clouds (kumo) beyond; a detail mounted in two panel folding format (byōbu) with textile border and wooden molding. Origin: Japan Era: Edo/Tokugawa (1615-1868), mid 19th Century Dimensions: 54.00” high x 50.50” wide Painting 3925 |