Peonies with Butterflies

Name: Peonies with Butterflies
SKU: 4394
Price: 160.00 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

Kakemono, unique work, 124 x 71 cm

Product number: 4394

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Details about the sold piece

Height 124 cm
Width 71 cm
Item Type Kakemono
Jikusaki Wood
Material Honshi Paper
Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
Technique Hand-Painted
Unique Work Yes

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Description

This lively hanging scroll dates from the Shôwa period and shows a pink and a creamy white peony joining into a lush bouquet of blossoms, while two orange butterflies circle playfully around the flowers in flight. Fine dewdrops on the dark green leaves heighten the impression of a fresh summer morning.

The interplay of peonies and butterflies is a popular motif in Japanese flower painting, combining the symbolic meaning of the peony as the queen of flowers with the butterfly as an emblem of joy, transformation, and a fulfilled, long life. The accompanying calligraphy in the upper left further underscores the festive character of the image.

Painted on paper and mounted in a wooden frame, this kakemono impresses with its luminous, carefully graduated color palette and precise detail painting. A particularly decorative and cheerful work for collectors of classical Japanese flower and insect painting.

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Because the two pieces of information speak about different things: the period designation describes the object – support, colors, condition – while the signature reflects which name appears on the painting. In most cases there is no attempt at deception behind this, but rather Japanese painting training: copying from workshop models was the curriculum for centuries, an utsushi is regarded as a bow to the teacher, workshops signed with the master's name, and artist names were passed down within a school. Such a hanging scroll is therefore not a forgery, but a hand-painted one-of-a-kind that continues the formal language of its school – just not the work of the famous name, and priced accordingly. We explain this in detail in the guide Why does a kakemono often bear the signature of an artist long deceased?.

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