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Six-fold screen depicting acrobats performing before a rich household
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Details
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- Date
- early - mid-17th century
- Material and technique
- ink, colour, and gold on paper; lacquered wooden frame, with brass corner fittings and studs
- Dimensions
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open 158.6 x 369.2 x 2 cm (height x width x depth)
closed 158.6 x 62.3 x 11.8 cm (height x width x depth)
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processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.2532
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, The Art of the Japanese Folding Screen: The Collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1997), no. 10 on p. 56, illus. pp. 56-57
Katz, Janice, Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with an introductory essay by Oliver Impey (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), p. 15
Location
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- currently in research collection
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