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AN OCTAGONAL STONEWARE VESSEL AND WOOD COVER AN IRON-OXIDE AND SLIP-DECORATED STONEWARE
By Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743), 1715 TWO-TIER JUBAKO (PICNIC BOX)
Each panel painted in iron oxide with a scene from Shosho hakkei By Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743), Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
(Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers), beneath the corresponding Decorated in sgraffito style in the manner of Chinese Cizhou ware, the
poem as follows: exterior painted in underglaze iron-oxide with all-over design of large
peony blossoms interwoven among karakusa (‘Chinese grasses’),
1) Night Rain on the Xiao and Xiang the interior of the lid painted windswept hagi (bush clover) and signed
2) Wild geese descending to a Sandbar Kenzan; with an inscribed wooden storage box with two paper slips,
3) Evening Bell from a Misty Temple one inscribed Kenzan botan karakusa kaku-nijubachi (Two-tier square
4) Mountain Market in Clearing Mist container with the design of karakusa and peonies by Kenzan). 13cm
5) River and Sky in Evening Snow x 17cm x 17cm (5 1/8in x 6 5/8in 6 5/8in). (4).
6) Fishing Village in Evening Glow
7) Autumn Moon over Lake Dongting £10,000 - 15,000
8) Returning Sails off a Distant Shore JPY1,500,000 - 2,300,000
US$14,000 - 21,000
Signed on the base in iron oxide Shotoku kinoto-hitsuji doshi Kenzan
Shinsei go (painted by Kenzan Shinsei, in the kinoto-hitsuji year of
Shotoku [1715]), with a reticulated wood cover, pierced with two Provenance
chrysanthemum blossoms; with double wooden storage boxes. Yokoyama Family.
21.2cm (8 5/8in) high. (4).
Published
Kanazawa Bijutsu Kurabu (Kanazawa Art Club), Yokoyama-ke
£3,000 - 5,000 shozohin nyusatsu (Auction Catalogue of the Yokoyama Collection),
JPY450,000 - 760,000 Kanazawa, 24 September (year not recorded), lot 171.
US$4,200 - 7,100

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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