#i'm also disappointed i couldn't find out what the calligraphy on 6 says but alas languages have never been my strong suit
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nd art id - CUR - jane's room
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1 + 2 are miniatures of two of the six Lady and the Unicorn (La Dame à la licorne) tapestries, created circa 1500.
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3 - Jane's folding screen - is made up of the four central panels from this six-panel screen depicting the arrival of a Portugese ship in Nagasaki Harbour, created circa 1600-1625
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4* + 5 are miniature chinoiserie-style french tapestries. unfortunately the images seem to be sourced from my nemesis the Pictures Now collection, so tracking down more specific details about them has proved difficult, but what i have found suggests the designs are from the mid-1600s
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6 - as far as I can tell, all of Jane's opera posters were created by HeR. if they are recreations of real posters I haven't been able to find the originals. but they definitely used the female figure from this 19th c. Japanese print to make the Madama Butterfly poster! bridgeman calls the print 'Courtesan Turning Head' and credits it to Kitugawa Eizan, but I haven't been able to confirm this because the Rennes Musee des Beaux-Arts collections website doesn't seem to work.
*HeR also used #4 in Message in a Haunted Mansion - it's one of the tapestries decorating the main staircase
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