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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF FRANK G. JAMES (1886 - 1977) PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A PACIFIC NORTHWEST
AND GEORGIA G. JAMES (1889 - 1981), PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR

2550W 2553
LITERATI SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) BANSHO KODA GEN’I (EARLY 19TH CENTURY)
Landscape Classic of Filial Piety
Large six-panel folding screen, ink and gold on paper; depicting a Hanging scroll, ink on silk; with a long passage from the Xiao Jing, a
Muromachi-style landscape with figures traveling to a country villa at Confucian classic of 400 BCE, signed Bansho Gen’i keisha (repectfully
the base of a towering mountains bordering a waterway, signed Koto [ copied), with two seals (minor wrinkles).
], with one seal [illegible] (some soiling). 50 x 19 5/8in (126 x 50cm)
66 1/8 x 148 3/8in (168 x 376.8cm) $800 - 1,200
$800 - 1,200
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF VIRGINIA MURRAY,
2551W SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA
A PAINTED WOOD DOOR, SUGIDO
Edo period 2554W
Ink, polychrome pigments and gold on cedar wood planks within a TWO SILK EMBROIDERED PANELS
black lacquered wood border; depicting a large pine tree and crane Meiji era, late 19th/early 20th century
silhouetted against golden clouds, traces of a second painting to the The first a couched silk hanging worked with a golden dragon in flight
reverse (some losses, reverse worn). amid clouds over cresting waves, all set within a green silk border (pulls,
68 1/4 x 38 1/8in (173.6 x 92cm) faded); the second with a patterned gold silk ground embroidered with
$800 - 1,200 a setting sun visible above country dwellings in a valley, the wide border
of floral-patterned silk brocade (faded, water stains).
PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER 68 ½ x 46 1/2in (174.2 x 118.2cm) and 86 ¾ x 37 1/4in (220.5 x
94.7cm) overall
2552 $1,200 - 1,500
ATTRIBUTED TO SAKAI HOITSU (1761-1828)
Autumn Grasses PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; depicting a field of flowering
autumn plants, mainly obana (pampas grass) and kikkyo (Chinese bell 2555
flower) in the light of a misty full moon, bearing the signature Hoitsu A BUDDHIST PRIEST’S SILK BROCADE STOLE, KESA
Kihin hitsu and seal Bunsen. Meiji era
46 1/8 x 21 3/4in (117.4 x 55.5cm) The dark ivory silk ground woven with ho-o and composite floral sprays
$1,500 - 2,500 in shades of brown, green and pale blue; sewn together with seven
rows of patches separated by narrow vertical bars, border bands and
four squares of applied at the corners, all of the same brocade fabric,
the reverse lined with purple silk (wear, altered on reverse).
52 1/2 x 83in (133.5 x 210cm) overall
$1,000 - 1,500

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