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Japanese Two Panel Screen: Gentle Landscape of Sparrow and Flowers
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period painting (1868 - 1912) of a sparrow investigating the area beneath blooming
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19th Century Japanese Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold

17th Century Japanese Calligraphy Scroll
Located in Hudson, NY
. Painting dimensions: 40 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W x 1" D.
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17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Setting Sun Over Cresting Waves
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868 - 1912) painting of Hokusai-style waves with a setting sun. Painted with
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Horses in Stable with Attendant
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Horses in Stable with Attendant, Beautifully painted screen of a very popular samurai subject matter. Samurai took pride in their horses and had them repr...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Screen "Cat Resting under Bamboo Arbor"
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese screen: Cat resting under bamboo arbor. Beautifully painted cat with trellis supporting a vine with seed pods. Seal reads: Makino.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood

Japanese Two-Panel Screen "Craggy Coast Line with Waves and Pine"
Located in Hudson, NY
Edo period (c. 1800) painting of a pine tree over waves crashing into a bluff. Mineral pigments
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Two-Panel Screen Hydrangea and Camelia Flowers with Sparrows in Flight
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868-1912) painting, with a lovely softness, celebrating spring. Painted in mineral
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

19th Century French Fan, Mother of Pearl, Painting Silk
By French House Garden
Located in Valladolid, ES
. The country is silk with lace trim with floral motifs, and a hand-painted watercolour scene. It has
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1890s French Napoleon III Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass

Japanese Asian Signed Edo Period Framed Hand Painted Tiger Scroll
Located in Studio City, CA
on a silk surface. Wonderfully captured and composed with a hint of whimsy and mischief. We
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Paint

Japanese Hanging Scroll of the Goddess of Mercy, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
This exquisite hanging scroll painting from the late 18th century depicts the sacred form of the
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Copper

Japanese Six Panel Screen: Chrysanthemums on Gold Leaf
Located in Hudson, NY
Rimpa style painting with wonderful use of negative space and a warm gold leaf glow. Mineral
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Silk Paintings

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Bronze, Gold Leaf

Japanese Six Panel Screen Spring into Summer
Located in Hudson, NY
Mid-Edo period, 18th century painting with gold leaf and mineral pigments. A summer landscape
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Moon Rising Through Bamboo On Silver Leaf
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Moon Rising Through Bamboo On Silver Leaf, Meiji period painting (1868
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Silver Leaf

19th Century Chinese Export Butterfly Insect Pith Watercolor
Located in Atlanta, GA
Canton China, circa 1830. A great and unusual pith watercolor painting of butterflies and insects
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19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Giltwood, Paper

Japanese Two Panel Screen of Child with Geese
Located in Rio Vista, CA
now only remnants. The painting is set in an ebonized wood frame with a traditional style silk brocade
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Korean Meiji Period Five-Panel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Late 19th-early 20th century five-panel painted screen. Meiji period paintings from Japanese
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19th Century Korean Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Grasscloth, Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Screen White Chrysanthemums and Wild Grasses
Located in Hudson, NY
. Edo period painting (c. 1850) in mineral pigments on heavy gold leaf with a silk brocade border.
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Important Japan Antique Poetry Waka Scroll Set Four Hand Calligraphy, Fine Work
Located in South Burlington, VT
, Chigusa. Waka is a popular and internationally acclaimed genre of Japanese poetry and painting
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Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk

Japanese Six-Panel Screen Buck and Doe in Pine Forest
Located in Hudson, NY
prosperity. Mineral pigments on gold leaf on mulberry paper with a silk brocade border.
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17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Two Panel Screen, Gourds on Bamboo Arbor
Located in Hudson, NY
School painting with gold leaf gourds and mineral pigments on oxidized silver leaf ground. Interesting
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

18th Century Japanese Edo Period Screen by Ishida Yutei
By Ishida Yutei
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Yutei (1756-1815). Title and signature on left with red seal. Set in an ebonized wood frame with a silk
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Tagasode (Whose Sleeves?)
Located in Hudson, NY
lacquer kimono stand, the painting evokes images of a beautiful, refined, fashionable, and absent woman
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Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Silk Paintings

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Textile, Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Edo Four-Panel Screen Hangzhou Autumn Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
color pigments painted on paper in the unkoku school style with strong Chinese influence. The painting
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass

A Single Late 19th Century Six Panel Paper Screen, in manner of Soga Chokuan
Located in London, GB
screen, with pigment and ink on rice paper, surrounded by Japanese silk bordered wooden frame. Late Edo
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Paint, Paper

One of Pair of 19th Century Six Panel Paper Screens, in manner of Soga Chokuan
Located in London, GB
six panel screen, with pigment and ink on rice paper, surrounded by Japanese silk bordered wooden
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Paint, Paper

One of a Pair of 19th Century Six Panel Paper Screens, in manner of Soga Chokuan
Located in London, GB
six panel screen, with pigment and ink on rice paper, surrounded by Japanese silk bordered wooden
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Paint, Paper

Japanese Meiji Four-Panel Moriage Style Chrysanthemum Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
stand out from the painting. Contrasted by a dark ground set with a textured paper border and a thin
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass

19th Century Japanese Screen
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Mid-19th Century Japanese sixfold screen with atmospheric Nanga style painting. Black ink over gold
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19th Century Japanese Chinoiserie Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Early 20th century (Meiji period) botanical signed scroll
Located in Fukuoka, JP
captures the delicacy of traditional Japanese painting. • Medium: Ink and pigments on silk • Size
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Two-Panel Screen Chrysanthemums Over a Woven Reed Fence
Located in Hudson, NY
oxidized silver leaf and a silk brocade border.
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Silver Leaf

Japanese Miniature Four-Panel Screen Blue and Green Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Chinese blue and green landscape in the Nanga School or literati painting style. Ink and color pigments on
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass

Japanese Six Panel Screen Moon Over the Plains of Musashino
Located in Hudson, NY
literature and can be found in all forms of artwork. Taisho period painting (1912-1926) in mineral pigments
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1920s Japanese Taisho Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Antique Japanese "Buddha and His Disciples" Hanging Scroll, Early 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
silk. The color is rich and bold. The scroll shows beautifully. The scroll is mounted as a hanging
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Paper

Japan Fine 1846 "Spirit Mandala" Buddha Sumi Ink Scroll Vibrant Writing, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
beautiful silk mounting. Japanese Mandala scroll Buddhist hand painted and handwritten in sumi ink on
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Two-Panel Screen Abstract Landscape of the Higashiyama Hills, Japan
Located in Hudson, NY
unusual silver application with gold dust on mulberry paper and a silk brocade border.
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Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

Japanese Meiji Period Two-Panel Landscape Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
patterned silk brocade border. Accented with etched brass borders. Signed with a seal on bottom right.
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass

Japanese Four-Panel Screen Four Fusuma Sliding Doors with Venerable Plum
Located in Hudson, NY
. Seal on the far right, very likely the seal of the person who turned the painting into doors, reads
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Early 1800s Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Bronze

Japanese Two-Panel Screen "Autumn Flower Design on Gold"
Located in Hudson, NY
Mineral pigments, gold leaf and gold dust on mulberry paper.
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18th Century Japanese Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Kano School Ink on Linen Canvas Screen
Located in Fukuoka, JP
This exquisite Momoyama-Early Edo period Kano school screen features a fierce and dynamic dragon, hand-painted with ink on linen canvas. The intricate details of the dragon's form an...
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16th Century Japanese Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Edo Two-Panel Screen Flowers of Autumn
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Kyoto. Set in a dark red lacquered frame with a gold silk border. From an estate in San Francisco, CA.
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Meiji Sumi-e Silver Leaf Painted Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
forest with quail. Sumi-e is the ancient art of Japanese monochromatic ink painting that has its origins
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass, Silver Leaf

Japanese Six Panel Screen Battle of Uji Bridge
Located in Hudson, NY
leaf on mulberry paper with a silk brocade border.
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Framed Chinese Scroll Painting on Silk
Located in Essex, MA
Depicting pheasant and bird in rock work and floral landscape. Estate Of Augustus Peabody Gardner.
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19th Century Chinese Antique Silk Paintings

The Water Maidens
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hanging scroll: ink and color on silk Signed by the artist; Original fitted wooden presentation
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Early 1800s Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Ink

Asian Framed Embroidery with Landscape, Early 20th Century
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Beautiful handmade silk embroidery, framed under glass. We see a landscape where a lake or a
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Silk Paintings

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Fabric, Silk, Glass, Wood

Japanese Edo Four Panel Table Screen Chinese Scholars Pavillion
Located in Rio Vista, CA
silver leaf. Set in a lacquered frame with a silk brocade border. The delicate landscape has later
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass, Silver Leaf

Japanese Two Panel Screen Sedge of Cranes in Rolling Landscape with Gold Clouds
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868-1912) painting of a group of cranes gathering next to water's edge with gold
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold

Japanese Two-Panel Edo Screen of Ancient Pine
Located in Rio Vista, CA
squares of gold leaf with ink and pigments. Set in a painted red frame with a faded patina and a dark silk
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass, Gold Leaf

Japanese signed antique scroll with Tiger Edo Era 18 Century
Located in Fukuoka, JP
) , only painting part 107 /50 cm ( 42 / 20 inch) Weight: 300gr (0.7 lb) Natural patination and
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Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Two Panels Japanese Folding Screen Gold Leaf
By Japanese Studio
Located in Brescia, IT
lacquered frames and the silk border are original. On request we can provide metal hooks to hang the flat
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Six-Panel Screen, Silver Moon and Bamboo on Gold
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese six-panel screen, silver moon and bamboo on gold, a silver leaf moon seen through a bamboo forest and low hanging gold leaf clouds. Mineral pigments painted on heavy gold le...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Kimono on Rack
Located in Hudson, NY
Kimono fabric applied to silver ground and painted kimono rack. Robe decorated in peony, chrysanthemum, bamboo, and a scroll. Old repairs on silver as shown. Priced accordingly.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Meiji Period Six Panel Screen Ducks in Water Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
19th century Japanese Meiji period six-panel screen depicting a serene water landscape with ducks and songbirds amid Momiji (red maple) hibiscus, and morning glory. Made in the Nihon...
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Silk, Wood, Paper

A Single Late 19th Century Six Panel Paper Screen, in the manner of Soga Chokuan
Located in London, GB
and ink on rice paper, surrounded by thickly set gold leaf border, and Japanese silk outer bordered
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Pair of Japanese Meiji Screens Country Village Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
artist or painter made in the Nihonga school style. The paintings feature ink and natural color pigments
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass, Gold Leaf

Japanese Six-Panel Screen Rimpa School Chrysanthemums on Silver and Gold
Located in Hudson, NY
paper with a silk brocade border. Seal reads: Toshimitsu, Pair available, sold separately.
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

Japanese Edo Six Panel Screen Chinese Fishing Boat Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
seaside landscape. Maruyama-Shijo School figural style painting in ink and natural color pigments on
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Silk Paintings

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Brass, Gold Leaf

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