Hanging scroll. Hand-painted painting of a snake coiling around a bamboo stalk.

Black ink on silk.

Signed on the left: Ippo. Red artist’s seal: Keishi.

Japan, early Meiji era

Image H 42 ½ x W 15 inches

Total H 78 inches

Few brown stains in silk, generally very good condition

Comes with kiri-wood storage box

From the estate of Ingeborg L. Muller, wife of Robert O. Muller

Painted in the style of Mori Ippo (1798 - 1871), but probably not by him