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Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons

Watanabe Shikō 渡辺始興

Color painting formed from a pair of screens arranged horizontally side-by-side, each with six, narrow vertical panels, of leafy plants and flowers growing from a low, golden groundplane, with a single tall tree trunk and its lower branches on each screen. Solid gold clouds surrounded by gold dust in the background. A thin rectangular border of golden textile surrounds each screen on all sides. — Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, silver, and gilding on paper; 61 × 145 1/16 in (each). Public Domain

Artist
Watanabe Shikō

Subject Area
Plants

Artistic Techniques
Gold, Gold Leaf

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