Description JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING ON SILK BY HIROMASA KEISHU (1729-1797)
18th Century
Depicts a nobleman on horseback and two attendants beneath a flowering cherry tree. Signed and seal marked.
45.5" x 17".
Dimensions 45.5" x 17".
Condition Report Professionally restored.
Exhibited Monsanto Gallery, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, September 2011.
Literature Illustrated in the March/April 1986 issue of Southern Accents Magazine, in an article in the Antiques feature titled "Oriental Scroll Paintings: The Survival of a Delicate Art Form" by Edwin C. Symmes, Jr.
Note: Hiromasa Keishu was a master under Tokugawa Shogun, Sumiyoshi.
Provenance The Symmes / Shiro Kuma Collection.