An inlaid ivory, gold-lacquer and Shibayama style two-panel folding tsuitate (table screen)


By Kanemitsu, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryThe interior elaborately and typically inlaid in Shibayama style with a continuous scene of a peacock perched on a rock on the right panel and egrets in flight and wading in a stream on the left, all beneath trailing branches of wisteria, flowering cherry and magnolia, shrubs of peonies, stalk of irises and kohone (nuphar or spatterdock) above two smaller rectangular panels with Java sparrows among rose mallows and chrysanthemums draped over bamboo fences, the reverse embellished in gold and red togidashi maki-e with pigeons perched on a maple trees above two smaller panels showing sparrows among maple and ginkgo leaves, the frame engraved with floral sprays and applied with silvered-metal engraved mounts; signed on the reverse in gold lacquer Kanemitsu with a kao. 32.8cm x 31.2cm (12 7/8in x 12 5/16in).