NOVEMBER FINE SOUTHERN ESTATES
Lot 171:
Description
Japanese Hand Painted on Silk 4 Panel Byobu. Pheasants and Peonies. Signed and with Seal. Each Panel is 14.75"wx35"hx1"d. Weight 14 lbs. Byobu, which literally means wind walls, are ornate mobile walls used to separate interior spaces and provide privacy within a section of a room. As their name suggests, they were originally used as windbreakers in the airy Japanese residences of antiquity. Nowadays they are largely viewed as aesthetic fixtures.
Condition: good
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