Property from Various Owners.
A Shibayama school two-section ivory table screen
Meiji period
The front panel with a relief carving of the Dragon King presenting the jewels of the sea to Emperor Ojin, here portrayed as a warrior riding on the back of a minogame and accompanied by various celestial beings riding on waves, reversed by birds in a flowering landscape executed in mother-of-pearl, shell and colored hardstone inlay, the separately fashioned base with reticulated spandrels and panel featuring a dragon and mokugyo amid scrolling tendrils and clouds and raised on curved supports, the finely incised details picked out with dark pigment (some losses to inlay).
8in (20.4cm) high
The front panel with a relief carving of the Dragon King presenting the jewels of the sea to Emperor Ojin, here portrayed as a warrior riding on the back of a minogame and accompanied by various celestial beings riding on waves, reversed by birds in a flowering landscape executed in mother-of-pearl, shell and colored hardstone inlay, the separately fashioned base with reticulated spandrels and panel featuring a dragon and mokugyo amid scrolling tendrils and clouds and raised on curved supports, the finely incised details picked out with dark pigment (some losses to inlay).
8in (20.4cm) high
Sold for
US$ 3,125
inc. premium
Category: Asian Art
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