Anonymous | Hunting scene before Mount Fuji | Edo period, 17th - 18th century

The Property of a European Collector

Anonymous

Hunting scene before Mount Fuji 

Edo period, 17^th - 18^th century

a six-panel folding screen; ink, colour and gofun on gold ground paper, with a scene of courtiers among pine trees hunting wild boar, bear, foxes and deer before Mount Fuji, their attendants with hounds and hawks, other panels depicting archers on horseback, silk brocade border decorated with hydrangeas among scrolling foliage, black lacquer mounts, engraved copper-gilt fittings

each panel approx. 176 x 62 cm., 69¼ x 25¼ in.