A large and impressive Japanese carved double-sided hardwood...

A large and impressive Japanese carved double-sided hardwood screen, one side decorated with a scene centred with a stag before a hill-side waterfall with distant hills beneath a leafy canopy, framed with pierced sides carved into the round with snakes climbing branches laden with fruiting vines, surmounted by a pair of finely carved monkeys, also presented in the round, verso decorated with an owl perched within blossoming foliate branches, raised on finely carved block supports, seemingly unsigned, Meiji period (1868-1912) 155 x 106cm (maximum) Provenance: From a private North London collection

Estimate:£800

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