Irises
1700s
Watanabe Shikō
Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683–1755)
Japanese Art
Irises, 1700s. Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683–1755). One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper; image: 152.8 x 360.4 cm (60 3/16 x 141 7/8 in.); overall: 164.6 x 372.4 cm (64 13/16 x 146 5/8 in.); closed: 170.8 x 64.5 x 12 cm (67 1/4 x 25 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.); panel: 164.8 x 62.1 cm (64 7/8 x 24 7/16 in.); with frame: 168.6 x 376.4 cm (66 3/8 x 148 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Norweb Foundation 1954.603.1
- Maker/Artist
- Watanabe Shikō
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 152.8 x 360.4 cm (60 3/16 x 141 7/8 in.); Overall: 164.6 x 372.4 cm (64 13/16 x 146 5/8 in.); Closed: 170.8 x 64.5 x 12 cm (67 1/4 x 25 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Panel: 164.8 x 62.1 cm (64 7/8 x 24 7/16 in.); with frame: 168.6 x 376.4 cm (66 3/8 x 148 3/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed and sealed lower left of the first panel from the left.
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1954.603.1
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Norweb Foundation
- Exhibitions
- Japanese Decorative Style, A World of Flowers, Rimpa, Rin-pa, The Legacy of Japanese Art, Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Rimpa, Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation, <em>Special Loan Exhibition of Art treasures from Japan</em>. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (September-October 1936).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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