Table screen with birds and flowers, inlaid in Shibayama style on ivory, height 20.5 cm, circa 1900.
In the collection of the Samara Art Museum there is a small double-leaf table screen, a fine example of Japanese decorative and applied art of the late 19th century. Such screens or screens were a true decoration of the interior, although they could also be used to protect the candle flame from drafts. Screens consisting of one leaf had a small stand for stability, and folding screens consisted, as a rule, of two leaves, although four-leaf examples are occasionally found. The decor of such screens was very diverse. Very beautiful screens are made using gold lacquer, carved ivory, and Shibayama style inlay techniques. There are porcelain, wooden, and painted screens.
Table screen with lacquer panels in the Shibayama style in a carved wooden frame, height 49 cm, 20th century.The reverse side of the screen is decorated with gold lacquer.
The table screen from the collection of the Samara Art Museum is richly decorated on both sides. The front side with images of flowers, hens and roosters is made using the Shibayama (shibayama) technique. This is a Japanese technique of inlaying products with coral, tortoiseshell, ceramics, mother-of-pearl, ivory, precious metals and gems. The reverse side of the screen, depicting butterflies, birds and flowers, is decorated with gold lacquer in the maki-e style. In this magnificent technique, a design is applied with gold or silver powder onto a freshly varnished surface of the product.
Japanese table screen with lacquer panels in the Shibayama style, framed in carved ivory, depicting nobles in the company of a dancer and a playing geisha, height 34.5 cm, circa 1900.Table screen with embroidered panel, 20th century.Shibayama style table screen with the Dragon King approaching a warrior with a staff on the left panel and a Buddhist parable about a goose hunt on the right, height 24 cm, circa 1900.Four leaf table screen with a depiction of the temple complex, painted on silk with ink and paints, length 55 cm.Four leaf table screen with images of flowers and birds on paper, painted with ink and paints, decorated with gold leaf, length 56.5 cm.Japanese table screen depicting birds and flowers, inlaid in Shibayama style on ivory, height 23.5 cm, circa 1900.Table screen in blue and white porcelain, late 19th century.Kutani porcelain, table screen Jo and Uba (Old Man and Old Woman, characters from a Noh play), height 25 cm, late 19th century.The screen, supported by monkey figures, is surmounted by a phoenix, height 20.3 cm, early 20th century.Japanese table screen depicting birds and plum blossoms, inlaid in the Shibayama style on a lacquered gold ground, height 23.5 cm, circa 1900.Japanese carved ivory table screen with a picnic scene under cherry blossom trees, Master Harunobu, height 19.3 cm, late 19th century.Bronze tabletop screen depicting geese inlaid with gold and silver, on a Shibuichi bamboo stick stand, reverse side engraved with herbs and flowers, height 15.5 cm, late 19th century.Table screen inlaid in the Shibayama style with birds and plum blossoms, in carved ivory frame, height 23.5 cm, Masayuki, circa 1900.Japanese porcelain table screen of the scientist Kiyomitsu with a classical image of pine, bamboo and plum, width 16.4 cm, late 18th century.Ancient table screen for a scientist’s desk made of lacquered Negoro wood with an iron insert in the form of an openwork chrysanthemum, height 24 cm, 16th 17th century (Momoyama period, Edo era).Wooden carved table screen with a depiction of a blossoming plum on paper, painted with ink and paints, decorated with gold leaf, 31×50.5 cm, late 17th century.Japanese table screen from the collection of the Samara Art Museum (reverse side).Japanese table screen from the collection of the Samara Art Museum.
