Each with lacquered wood framing and chased floral metal mounts and roundels to either side, the panels with continuous painted scene of red-crowned cranes in flight above waters, within a foliate and diamond pattern silk border, the reverse lined with shippo-pattern paper, each screen signed to lower corner 'Edokoro azukari ju-yoni-jo Tosa no kami Fujiwara Mitsusada'
67 in. (170 cm.) high; each panel 24¹⁄₂ in. (62.5 cm.) wide

Purchased at Christie's London, 25 April 1984, lot 261.

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