Asian Folding Hand Woven Screen of Cranes

Large Macrame handcrafted with many different knot styles and a scene of hills, sun and clouds.

Bark cloth or tapa cloth mounted on plywood and trimmed in mahogany. Bark cloth, or tapa, is not a woven material, but made from bark that has been softe...

Vintage wool tapestry depicting a floral and musical motive. Beautiful flowing lines of green, black and orange. Signature Jean Claude Bissery and ERF

Unique midcentury handmade hanging fiber art.

Amazing 19th century pair of large Japanese Meiji period six panel screens each depicting a sedge of Manchurian red-crowned cranes along the shore. The screens are crafted in the Nihonga school style with intricate details and beautifully depicted cresting waves. Each screen is signed by artist Hakundo Keikan and studio name of Watahiki Tokai (Japanese 1837-1915). Both screens are signed with red seals on the left and right side. Tokai was a Chinese scholar from the late Edo period and served in the Imperial Household...

Kano style painting in mineral pigments on silk with a silk brocade border.

Japanese two panel screen: Amorous Cranes and Turtles. In Japan, cranes symbolize fidelity as they mate for life and turtles symbolize longevity. Additionally, this screen also has the Japanese motif of sho-chiku-bai, or the three friends of winter (pine, plum, and bamboo). So called the three friends of winter because all three flourish during the cold months. This screen was originally fusuma doors...

A superb and masterfully painted Japanese kakejiku (hanging scroll) from the early Taisho period, featuring an elegant depiction of a pair of cranes—revered symbols of longevity and ...