Page 12 - Decorative Asian Art, Bonhams San Francisco June 28, 2017

6021 6021 W
A ‘JAPANNED’ LACQUER AND WOOD
6022 CHEST-ON-STAND
Europe, 19th century
10 | BONHAMS Imitating Japanese chests made in the shape
of a Kannon biraki tansu for export to Europe
in the 18th century: the pair of doors fronting
five interior storage drawers and elaborate
chased metal hardware, the surfaces
‘Japanned’ in black and shades of gilt paint
with Asian style building in abbreviated
landscapes, the drawer interiors also painted
in cinnabar colored paint; supported on
a conforming painted wood stand (wear,
chips).
39 1.4 x 16 1/2 x 11 1/2in (100 x 42 x 29cm)
overall

US$3,000 - 5,000

PROPERTY FROM A PALO ALTO
COLLECTION

6022
A LACQUERED WOOD TWO-PANEL
FLOOR SCREEN
Meiji era, late 19th century
Carved in high relief with six Buddhist rakan
(sk. arhat) and one young attendant standing
and seated under a tree that extends across
the upper portions of both rectangular panels
set within elaborately carved and undercut
frames incorporating a long-tailed phoenix
at the top, dragons crawling up the exterior
sides and repeated in the rectangular apron
at the base above the four wheel supports,
the reverse finished with pairs of phoenix and
paulownia blossoms in flat relief (minor chips,
shrinkage).
91 3/4 x 77 1/2in (233 x 197cm)

US$800 - 1,200

Provenance
purchased by S. S. Kresge (1867-1966) in
the 1920s, by repute
acquired by the current owner in the late
1980s

PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS

6023
ANONYMOUS BUDDHIST (18TH/19TH
CENTURY)
Liuhai and Three-Legged Toad
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, framed
and glazed; depicting the Chinese immortal
Gama Sennin with his toad, with apocryphal
urn-shaped seal reading Toyo (Sesshu Toyo)
(toned, surface wear).
37 x 20 1/2in (94 x 52.1cm)

US$1,200 - 1,800