As part of our Japanese works of art collection we are delighted to offer this outstanding large scale Meiji Period 1868-1912 silk textile depicting a pair of peacocks within a landscape setting. These beautiful birds are at rest on a hillside setting beside a pine tree and beneath a backdrop of trailing wisteria and native flora. The area above the birds finely picked out in clouds of couched gold thread in order to provide a perfect contrast to the vast floral display, as well as a sure sign of a highly prized and important work of art. This huge scale textile scene bordered with a contrasting silk brocade depicting ho-ho birds in flight amidst flora.Quite simply a magnificent highly decorative huge scale piece of wall art from the Meiji Period .Literature:It is difficult to imagine the hundreds of hours required by multiple skilled workers to produce a textile of this size, with tens of thousands of stitches required, it was a painstaking workload that was very likely destin...