A SMALL JAPANESE SIX-FOLD PAPER SCREEN, BYOBU MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Painted with two large cranes and other smaller birds in a luxuriant garden, a meandering river cascading behind them, with flowering prunus and pine trees on the gold background, together with a small collection of Japanese and Chinese works on paper, including woodblock prints of figures and an album of paintings, the screen 61cm x 139cm. (9) Provenance: the collection of Collingwood 'Cherry' Ingram (1880-1981) and thence by descent. Cherry Ingram was a famous British ornithologist, plant collector and gardener who became renowned for his knowledge on Japanese cherry trees. See lot 400 for another piece from Cherry Ingram's collection, a netsuke of a rat by Okatori.
A SMALL JAPANESE SIX-FOLD PAPER SCREEN, BYOBU MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Painted with two large cranes and other smaller birds in a luxuriant garden, a meandering river cascading behind them, with flowering prunus and pine trees on the gold background, together with a small collection of Japanese and Chinese works on paper, including woodblock prints of figures and an album of paintings, the screen 61cm x 139cm. (9) Provenance: the collection of Collingwood 'Cherry' Ingram (1880-1981) and thence by descent. Cherry Ingram was a famous British ornithologist, plant collector and gardener who became renowned for his knowledge on Japanese cherry trees. See lot 400 for another piece from Cherry Ingram's collection, a netsuke of a rat by Okatori.
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