Blossoming Cherry Trees
(Japan and Korea )
Gold-leaf clouds partly cover and partly reveal the trunks and branches of three ancient cherry trees. When such trees bloom in the spring, they attract visitors and remind us of the beauty, dignity, and brevity of life. Folding screens with large amounts of gold leaf reflected light and made rooms-within-rooms in the large spaces of late 16th- and early 17th-century Japanese castles.
Provenance
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Mathias Komor, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1973, by purchase.
Exhibitions
2014 | Designed for Flowers: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 69 × W: 147 3/8 in. (175.26 × 374.33 cm); H open with proper spread: 69 × W: 109 in. (175.26 × 276.86 cm); H of each of two outer panels: 69 × W: 25 3/16 in. (175.26 × 63.98 cm); H of each of four inner panels: 69 × W: 24 1/4 in. (175.26 × 61.6 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1973
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
35.114