A six-panel Japanese screen from Late Edo period, featuring a mother peacock and her baby under a pine tree. Hand-painted with ink and color on silk in Nanga style, signed and sealed by Tani Bunji at the lower right of the screen. The painting is mounted with silk brocaded border and framed with black lacquered wood frame and handcrafted copper hardware.
Tani Bunji (1812-1850), is artist from Late Edo period, sun of Tani Bunchō. Their family is the retainers of the Tayasu Family of descendants of the eighth Tokugawa shōgun. Tani Bunji’s works were also in British museum’s collection.
