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Two-fold Lacquer Screen

Japan

Onaga Tamotsu (b.1932)

20th century, circa 1989

Height: 176.5 cm – Width: 171 cm

A two-fold lacquer screen with an abstract design of fish in the abyss, rendered in gold and silver lacquer with details inlaid in mother-of-pearl against a black ground. An original label with the title, signature Onaga Tamotsu and seal Tamotsu is attached to the reverse.

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11-19 May 1991, Nagisa no Genso – Hyomon Makie Onaga Tamotsu Shitsugeiten (Illusions of the Coast: hyomon and makie lacquer, Onaga Tamotsu Exhibition), Gallery Yusentei, National Park Yashima Sanjo, Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture