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Playing turtles - Y?kame no zu
| Signed: | Chinnen |
Sealed: | Chinnen & Sonan (椿年 & 楚南) |
Date: | c. 1840 |
Size: | 189 x 49 cms (mounting) 114 x 42 cms (painting)
74 x 19 inch (mounting) 45 x 17 inch (painting) |
Technique: | sumi on paper |
Condition: | Mounting of green silk; black wooden rollers, wooden box. Very good condition: some superficial wrinkles and one faint stain (visible between the two groups of turtles); The top part of the mounting has some wear (backside) - hardly visible from the front. |
Price: | SOLD Euro
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Literature: | Jack Hillier, The Uninhibited Brush, chapter 15 (esp. plate 245). This painting illustrated in A Brush with Animals - Japanese Paintings 1700-1950, published in 2008, p. 181 (plate A43). |
Signature: |
See signature |
Mounting: |
See mounting |
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