Japanese Folding Screen with Bird and Blooming Plants
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A Japanese six-panel folding screen, inscribed Seigyu ga, 20th century, painted in colours on the gold silk ground with a single bird perched on a branch of a flowering prunus tree beneath overhanging willow and maple and beside brightly coloured flowering plants and bamboo, bearing the signature and with a red seal, each panel 170 cm high, 62 cm and 64 cm wide
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- Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.
Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
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