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Lacquer Folding Screen with Turkey and Wisteria (T-4198)

Creator: Izumi Atsuhiko
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
A folding screen comprising a central wood-framed panel and a smaller wood-framed panel to left and right, connected by metal hinges, depicting a large turkey in colored takamaki-e lacquer with hanging wisteria blossoms above and on either side on a beige-toned ground, the reverse with ferns in gold lacquer on a translucent red-brown ground

Signed on the front in gold lacquer "Made by Atsuhiko in March 1947" with a seal "Atsuhiko"; signed on the back in gold lacquer "Made by Atsuhiko in March 1947" with a seal Atsuhiko

Based in Nerima, Tokyo and later in Niigata Prefecture, Izumi Atsuhiko exhibited at the Hoshukuten (Special National Exhibition Held to Mark the 2,600th Anniversary of the Japanese Imperial House) in1940 and, after the war, at the Nitten official national exhibition. A specialist in carved-lacquer decoration, he was a student of the renowned lacquer scholar Rokkaku Shisui (1867–1950) and mostly made wares for the tea ceremony. In 1947, the year the present piece was made, he exhibited a “small lacquer screen with chickens,” perhaps in a similar format.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	Japan
Period:	1920-1949
Materials:	Wood with lacquer decoration
Condition:	Good. Excellent condition.
Creation Date:	1947
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Dealer Reference #:	T-4198
Incollect Reference #:	565329

Dimensions

W.	58.39 in;	H.	44.49 in;
W.	148.3 cm;	H.	113 cm;

Message from Seller:

Thomsen gallery, located in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, offers important Japanese paintings and works of art to collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery specializes in Japanese screens and scrolls; in early Japanese tea ceramics from the medieval through the Edo periods; in masterpieces of ikebana bamboo baskets; and in gold lacquer objects.