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A Set of Twelve Panels Depicting Hawks (c. 1880 Japan)

Country of Origin

Japan

Dated

c. 1880

Dimensions

28.30inch wide   55.50inch high
(71.88 cm wide  140.97 cm high)

Condition

Condition report on request.


Description / Expertise

A set of twelve late 19th century Japanese watercolour portraits of native indigenous hawks each shown in a different position resting on a ceremonial perch with elaborately decorated banners and knotted ropes. Each with a collectors stamp.

By tradition hawks were given annually to the Emperor from the regions of Japan; the knotted ropes signify, in a lost code, the region in Japan from whence the hawks derive.