Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons Holiday Cards

$23.95 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Send season's greetings with art holiday cards from The Met. The elegant composition of cranes among flowers on our holiday cards, originally presented in a seasonal progression from spring to winter, is a suggestion of longevity. It comes from a pair of lavish six-panel folding screens made in late 16th-century Japan during the Momoyama period (1573–1615), when images with exaggerated, high-relief details were popular. Vivid colors and strong ink outlines against a golden background are characteristic of…