© Ashmolean Museum
The Flowers of the Four Seasons
Artist: Yokoyama Seiki (1793 - 1865)
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Date: 1849
Materials: ink & colour on gold leaf, mounted on paper stretched on wooden screens
Dimensions: 168 x 750 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £10,000 (Total: £52,000)
Vendor: Takashi Yanagi
Review number: 3705 (1992)
Provenance:
Takashi Yanagi.
Description:
A pair of screens depicting 'The Flowers of the Four Seasons'. The sixfold screens are richly decorated with flowers, trees and birds in colours on a ground of gold leaf and illustrate how Shijo artists, like Seiki, captured the appearance of nature, whilst maintaining the traditional use of carefully structured composition and decorative gold background.
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