id:			146213
accession number:	1972.10.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.10.2
updated:		2023-08-23 22:21:21.704000

Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo, 1668. Yamaguchi Sekkei (Japanese, 1644–1732). One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper; image: 149 x 330 cm (58 11/16 x 129 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1972.10.2

title:				Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo
title in original language:	牡丹に唐獅子と竹に虎図屏風
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creation date:			1668
creation date earliest:		1668
creation date latest:		1668
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Folding screen
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Yamaguchi Sekkei (Japanese, 1644–1732)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 149 x 330 cm (58 11/16 x 129 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Unfolding Beauty:  Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2001-07-15T00:00:00
	<i>Unfolding Beauty:  Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 18-October 26, 2003).

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PROVENANCE

	(Nisaburo Mizutani, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1972
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1972–
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wall description:
Sekkei lived and studied painting in Kyoto at the Kano school studio, the center of traditional painting activity in Japan since 1500. The use of gold foil as a backdrop for the frolicking animals served a practical as well as a decorative function. Because traditional Japanese rooms had no windows, interior lighting came from portable oil lamps and wax candles, whose effects were magnified by reflective surfaces.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cunningham, Michael R. "The Japanese Painter Yamaguchi Sekkei." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 67, no. 1 (1980): 2-16.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 2; Mentioned: p. 2-16
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159655

	Cunningham, Michael R. <em>Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 38–39
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