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Meiji P. Japanese Small Inlaid Four Panel Screen

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Meiji P. Japanese Small Inlaid Four Panel Screen
Featured in this lot is this Japanese small inlaid four panel screen circa the Meiji Period. The Meiji era is an era of Japanese history that extended from 1868 to 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent great power, influenced by Western scientific, technological, philosophical, political, legal, and aesthetic ideas. The table screen features a wonderfully and professionally crafted wooden and inlaid with two shades of abalone, red coral, and orange spiny oyster and shows a scene of a port with a hill side with structures on top and a mountain in the distance; the front scene is of mothers and their daughters by the water side interacting together. The condition of this panel table screen shows one scratch to the left panel and to its frame but seems to be otherwise well preserved. The measurements of this four panel table screen is 34 3/4" x 41 1/2" fully extended.