A fine decorative lacquer panel depicting birds.

Description:

Japan, late Edo/Meiji period
101 x 51 cm
A rectangular lacquer panel decorated in fine gold maki-e on a red-brown roiro ground, depicting a weeping willow above flowering shrubs and grasses, with a pheasant, bird of prey, sparrow and insects among the foliage. The details embellished with inlays of mother-of-pearl, lacquer and bone.
From a European private collection - Minor wear. partly slightly chipped and overpainted, framed