A gold-lacquer and Shibayama style two-panel folding screen


By Masaaki, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryLavishly embellished in typical Shibayama style and inlaid with various materials with a continuous lively outdoor scene of drunken revellers comprising mainly itinerant performers enjoying the hanami (cherry-blossom-viewing) season, above two smaller rectangular gold-lacquer panels decorated with six fans enclosing flowers, the reverse with sparrows hovering among chrysanthemums growing from behind or against bamboo fences above similarly lacquered gold panels, the thin borders of the screen lacquered in Gyobu nashiji, the top, bottom and sides applied with silvered-metal mounts; signed on the reverse in a carved red-lacquer reserve Masaaki. 23.7cm x 21.5cm (9 3/8in x 8½in).