SHÔUN

Description:

Japan, signed: Shôun and seal: Shôun no in Meiji period
58 x 46,5 cm ( R.)
Two watercolours on paper. 1) Depiction of a white egret standing on a gnarled branch, surrounded by bamboo. In front of him a group of three other white egrets. Signed lower left and a seal. 2) Depiction of a pair of egrets between flowering irises. Signed lower right and a seal.
Collection of Prof. Dr Hermann Schröder (1902-1991), Aachen, and expanded by his family - According to the label on the reverse formerly Collection Eleonor von Erdberg Consten - Minor wear, one watercolour partially with foxing, framed under glass