Lot 282 , An impressive Japanese carved wood, ivory and Shibayama four-fold screen, by Kobayashi, Meiji period, 203cm x 268cm

An impressive Japanese carved wood, ivory and Shibayama four-fold screen, by Kobayashi, Meiji period, decorated on one side in high relief and inlaid with a peacock perched on flowering branches, flanking the two inner panels decorated with butterflies and sparrows hovering beneath entwined branches of trailing wisteria, all within a hardwood frame carved with writhing dragons and frolicking shishi, signed on one panel Kobayashi within a pot-shaped seal; the reverse carved with repeated sparrows flying among flowering camellia on a red-lacquered ground, 203cm x 268cm
Estimate £3,000-5,000


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Sold for £2,800