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Description: | Japanese print scene with a hillside town in the background and various travellors in the foreground. Polychromo print on fine, stiffened silk/paper mix. Reverse is naturalistic print of auntumn leaves and insects in very delicate colours.
Sticks are plain ivory with serrated edges, one detached from leaf. Guards of carved ivory with shibayama inlay of pearl, coral, jade and tortoiseshell in a design of wisteria, cherry blossom and birds. Metal rivet and a pale blue cord with an ivory toggle. Double tassel of oqime. One mother-of-pearl disc forming Chrysanthemum blossom missing from left hand guard.
Part of the Moorcroft donation and No.248 in the Moorcroft Catalogue. Purchased on 18.6.45 at the Red Cross Shop in Cheltenham.
Material: paper
Material: silk
Material: ivory
Material: pearl
Material: coral
Material: jade
Material: tortoiseshell
Material: mother-of-pearl | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.16756 | Go to resource |
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