Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart
Flower Cart

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Flower Cart

Kano Eikei (also read as Kano Nagataka) 狩野永敬, 1662–1702; born Kyoto, Japan
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
2021-191

Information

Title
Flower Cart
Maker
Kano Eikei (also read as Kano Nagataka) 狩野永敬
Medium
Two-panel folding screen: ink, color, and gold leaf on paper
Dimensions
161.2 × 181.5 cm (63 7/16 × 71 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Lynne and Jack Dodick
Object Number
2021-191
Signatures
Signed: "Painted by Eikei" (Eikei hitsu 永敬筆)
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist seals (2): "Kano [hitsu]" 狩野[筆], tall rect. intaglio (upper) "Chūkan" 仲簡, sq. intaglio (lower)
Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period), Kano School
Type
furniture, paintings, screens (furniture)
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product), colorant
Subject
carts, flowers

–1999 Heisando Co. Ltd (Tokyo, Japan), sold to Kaikodo Gallery (New York, NY), May 1999.
1999–1999 Kaikodo Gallery (New York, NY), sold to Lynne and Jack Dodick (New York, NY), September 22, 1999.
– [Lynne and Jack Dodick (New York, NY), auction at Sotheby's London: Fine Japanese Art, Tuesday, November 3, 2020, lot 00167, bought in]
1999–2021 Lynne and Jack Dodick (New York, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2021.

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