Collection Number 13
Title Gunung Fuji/Mount Fuji
Time Early 20th century/1940s
Time Acquisition 1995
Place Japan or places in Indonesia during Japanese occupation
Place of Acquisition Antique Shop, Jl. Surabaya, Jakarta, Jakarta Indonesia
Name Painter (Place and Year of Birth-Death)
Unknown
Size 62cm x 42cm
Category
(Sub-Category)
Pesage
Current Location Palermo, Italy (Home)
Description Japanese reverse glass painting landscape featuring a lake surrounded by hills and houses with high trees and in the background Mount Fuji, symbol of Japan. A unique feature of these and other Japanese glass paintings of that time are the collages of mother-of-pearl house roofs and boat sails as well as indented paper pictures of women in their kimonos (as also per below).