Title: A Pair of Yamato-E Paintings, possibly from a Depicting Scenes of Chinese Court Life, Circa 1650-1700. Beautifully Illuminated Paintings in the Style of the Kano School and with Southern School Styles Displayed
Author: Likely Kano School
Condition: Good
Two Early Edo Period, 17th century Yamato-e paintings, depicting scenes of Medieval China, one painting showing a court with figures enjoying a mock horse race, and another with a large group of people playing with caged birds.
Each painting has been produced on fine paper, and they beautifully produced with profuse usage of gold leaf, gold inks, and clouds to decorate the borders and background. All of the figures in both paintings are also highlighted to a certain with gold ink, to provide visual distinction and highlighting.
Though the paintings are unsigned, the stylistic Southern School painting method, and the nature of each painting is very much in the style of the Kano School, who often painted early Chinese scenes, including quite a few albums and folding screen displays of The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, of which these are somewhat reminiscent of.
Each painting has been mounted on backing paper for sturdier preservation.
Two illuminated yamato-e paintings in shikishi format, 29.6 x 24.7 cm
These paintings are in very good shape, with minor wear and soiling, and very light paint flaking in a couple of places.