屏風尽図屏風|Screens within Screens
The Met
Artist: Unknown
Date: 18th century
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilt paper
Dimensions: Image (each): 66 15/16 in. × 12 ft. 4 in. (170 × 376 cm)
Credit Line: Fletcher, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation and Dodge Funds, 2010
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
Gold multi-panel screen with overlapping landscape scenes: mountains, water, trees, buildings, and patterns
Detailed Description
This wide, horizontal multi-panel screen is predominantly gold, serving as a shimmering background for a complex, collage-like composition. Various irregularly shaped panels and sections overlap and interlock, creating a dynamic visual arrangement. On the far left, a section with a brown geometric pattern is visible at the top, partially covering a light-colored panel. This panel depicts a bird perched on a branch adorned with white blossoms. Below this, a larger, horizontal panel showcases a misty landscape with distant mountains, a prominent island-like landmass in the middle ground, and water with small boats. The colors in this landscape are muted grays, greens, and browns. To the right, a section with a gray patterned design, resembling fabric, extends diagonally. This gray pattern also forms the background for several smaller, irregularly shaped panels arranged in a zig-zag fashion across the central and right portions of the screen. These smaller panels contain diverse scenes: one features a vibrant green mountainous landscape with red-roofed buildings; another depicts a more open landscape with a large tree, a small building, and clouds; and a lower panel displays green grasses and white flowering plants against a light background. The gold background itself has a subtle grid pattern, suggesting gold leaf application. A thin black frame borders the entire screen at the top and bottom edges.
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