Framed Assemblage with Japanese Printing Blocks and Floral Brass Tone Plates

Item Details

Metal

A late 20th-century mixed media assemblage of Japanese objects. The wall hanging includes four panels, two containing Japanese printing blocks, and the other two featuring small brass tone metal plates decorated with floral and foliate patterns. The items are are mounted to a board backing covered in brown fabric; they are matted in patterned tan and presented without glass in a black wooden frame with gold tone embellishments to the corners, fitted with hanging wire to the verso.

Condition

- slight surface wear, scratches and discoloration to blocks and metal plates; accretion, small stains, surface wear and toning to fabric, with small rip to one panel; tears, scuffs and wear to matting, especially along lower edge; white stain to matting at top right; edge wear, nicks and discoloration to frame, with crack to top left; frame’s backing paper is torn away.

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Item #

18NYC002-141