JAPANESE HANGING SCROLL, Antique \"Cranes\" .by Maruyama Okyo, c.1770, Edo Period For Sale

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c.1770, Edo Period

This is a most handsome Hanging Scroll with a venerable painting on silk by the renowned artist, Maruyama Okyo, who was active in the middle years of the 1700\'s. I believe he made this painting around 1770and that the mounting is original to the painting

Born in 1733, Maruyama Okyo was one of the master painters of the Edo Period and the most influential teacher and artist of the 1700\'s in Kyoto. Trained in the Kano School of painting, Okyo combined styles from both Japanese and Chinese influences. With scientific observation, Okyo crated naturalistic bird, animal and flower paintings. He also created illustrated anatomy books and large scale screen compositions, accepting commissions from temples and the Royal Palace in Kyoto. Okyo was very famous and popular in his own time, founding the Maruyama School and influencing noted painters such as Matsumura Goshun and Nagasawa Rosetsu.

His works are in numerous collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the British Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Walters Museum and the Tokyo National museum and every important collection in Japan.

In the present painting Okyo gives us a beautifully painted representation of a pair of Cranes standing on a rocky shore overlooking the sea.

Thecrane is considered a national treasure, appearing in art, literature and folklore. They regard the crane as a symbol of good fortune and longevity because of its fabled life span of a thousand years. And since the crane keeps the same mate for its entire life, it has also become a symbol, an augury and a celebration of a successful and happy union of two people.

For many of these reasons, cranes figure largely as motifs for gifts and celebrations surrounding the new year, marriages, anniversaries and almost any other occasion when one would desire to express good wishes.

This scroll wold make a wonderful gift.

I particularly enjoy the elegant composition, where Okyo has arranged the two Cranes, who are obviously a couple, facing in different directions, but forming one visual mass, supported by a tripod of three legs. The Crane in the back has lifted one of hers. A very elegant alternative to a possible jumble of legs and feathers.

This scroll measures 72 inches long and 23 inches wide, not including the roller ends which are of beautifully turned wood. The painting is in remarkably good condition for its significant antiquity, 264 or so years old, with no damage at all and barely a small wrinkle or two.

The old mounting does show some small signs of wear. The top and bottom portions are made of brocade with a grey green ground an a foliage motif in lighter colored threads. The part surrounding the painting is of a fine old brocade with a russet ground and a large floral motif in self colored satin threads. And the two borders of brocade at the top and bottom of the painting havea rich brown ground and a large floral motif in metallic golds. The futai are faced a brocade with a light gold ground and a small floral design in olive green,

Although the old mounting show some small signs of wear, it serves the painting very well, is original to it and I think it well worth conserving,

The photos give a very good idea of the excellence and beauty of this scroll with its magisterial painting on silk by Maruyama Okyo from around 1770 in the Edo period.

If you should have any questions, please don\'t hesitate to contact me.

And thanks for looking.

The painting on this scroll is around244 or so years old and has passed through many difficult times including two World Wars, the Second of which was disastrous for its native country. Forunframed works on such a delicate support as silk, it is remarkable thatthey has survived at all, let alone in such good condition. But these scrolls and similar works of art are not in absolutely perfect condition and they frequently show evidence of their long life. I endeavor to point out if and where there may be any damage, but the photographs tell the whole story. Please examine them carefully. If you are looking for something with absolutely no signs of age, I am afraid you will have to look elsewhere. In short, these beautiful scrolls were not born yesterday.

I indicate the artist\'s name based on a signature and/or seal and also the style, but occasionally a scroll may be a copy of a work by a famous painter. In the present case, I am sure that the painting is by Maruyama Okyo.

Due to limitations of photography and the inevitable differences in monitor settings, the color of the pictures on your monitor may be slightly different from the scrolls themselves, but I did my best to capturethem as they are. And, at least on my monitor, the color is a perfect match.

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