A BRONZE AND SHIBUICHI TABLE SCREEN, SIGNED SEIJYU, SEALED KOSHO AND INSCRIBED UMO-ZU SHIRAYUKI [FEATHER WITH WHITE SNOW] KANOE-TORA SHUNJITSU [SPRING DAY OF 1890], MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY

THE PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN

A BRONZE AND SHIBUICHI TABLE SCREEN,

SIGNED SEIJYU, SEALED KOSHO AND INSCRIBED UMO-ZU SHIRAYUKI [FEATHER WITH WHITE SNOW] KANOE-TORA SHUNJITSU [SPRING DAY OF 1890]

MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19^TH CENTURY

the screen in two parts, the panel carved, chased, engraved and inlaid in silver and gold with geese, the reverse carved, engraved with flowers and grasses and entwined among plum blossoms and tree peony, silver rims, the frame in a form of bamboo with a deep brown patination 

21 x 15.5 cm, 8 ¼ x 6 ⅛ in.