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A LARGE FRAMED EMBROIDERED WALL HANGING
ANONYMOUS After a painting by Ito Jakuchu, Meiji era (1868-1912),
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Two-panel folding screen made up of cedarwood panels in partially late 19th/early 20th century
red-lacquered frames, ink and colours on wood, depicting a courtesan Handwoven with different shades of green, brown, black, pink and
with a samurai client armed with the customary two swords and red silk thread with two cockerels confronting each other beneath
another courtesan with her young kamuro (attendant) carrying an the spreading boughs of a pine tree overhanging a river, thatched
outsize kiseru (tobacco pipe), all gorgeously attired in fashionable dwellings on the river bank on the right and clumps of wild dandelions
garments of the early to mid-seventeenth century, the reverse painted in the foreground, signed Jakuchu in black silk with seal Jakuchu
wtih autumn grasses and the full mooon; unsigned. Overall: 165.7cm woven in red silk. Overall: 129.5cm x 85.7cm (51in x 33¾in);
x 157cm (65¼in x 61¾in); each image: 160.5cm x 74cm (63 1/8in x image: 114cm x 70cm (44 7/8in x 27 5/8in).
29 1/8in).
£1,000 - 1,500
£1,500 - 2,000 JPY150,000 - 220,000
JPY220,000 - 300,000 US$1,300 - 2,000
US$2,000 - 2,600

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
152 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.