Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Tigers in a Bamboo Grove

Artist Tosetsu Sogetsu (Japanese, active 18th Century)

DateEdo period (1615-1868), 18th century

Made/manufacturedJapan, Asia

MediumInk, color and gold on paper

Dimensions5 ft. 2 3/4 in. x 11 ft. 11 1/4 in. (159.4 x 363.9 cm)
closed: 5 ft. 8 in. x 25 1/4 in. x 4 1/2 in. (172.7 x 64.1 x 11.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the Robert H. and Kathleen M. Axline Acquisition Endowment

Object number2004.29

Collections

ASIAN

DescriptionA six-panel folding screen with image of four tigers in a bamboo grove next to a flowing stream.

Each set on a high circular foot and decorated on the interior with camellias and waves in underglaze cobalt-blue, some of the flowers painted in overglaze iron-red, the background and the center of the flowers applied with a celadon glaze, the underside undercoated and the foot painted with a 'comb-tooth' pattern in underglaze blue. (from auction catalog)