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OTHER INLAID WOOD 278
WORKS OF ART AND FURNITURE
Various Properties 278TP Y Ф
A CARVED AND INLAID WOOD CABINET ON STAND
276Y Ф Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century/early 20th century
AN OVAL INLAID WOOD PANEL Constructed in two detachable sections with hardwood frames
By Kitada Tomoaki, Meiji era (1868-1912) carved with cloud designs and cedar panels, fitted with different-sized
Decorated with a Buddhist monk, wearing cupboards and a set of asymmetrical chigaidana shelves, parts of the
a wide-brimmed takuhatsugasa (straw sides and top carved to emulate bamboo, the back and sides with
hat), standing with both hands resting on a openwork panels carved with floral designs, the front panels richly
bamboo cane and turned towards the solitary inlaid and encrusted in shell and stained ivory with mallows, peonies,
egret flying in the distance, worked in low- chrysanthemums, camellias, lotuses, vases, a kingfisher, sparrows and
relief of wood, ivory and stained ivory, on a other motifs.
plain dark wood ground; signed in a square 146cm x 102cm x 36cm (57½in x 40 1/8in x 14½in). (2).
seal in tensho script Kitada Tomoaki.
60.1cm x 42.2cm (23¾in x 16 5/8in). £1,500 - 2,000
JPY210,000 - 280,000
£1,000 - 1,500 US$1,900 - 2,500
JPY140,000 - 210,000
US$1,200 - 1,900

Provenance:
Camille Pissaro collection.
Georges Henri Manzana Pissaro collection.

A label on the reverse inscribed Manzana,
(Georges Henri Manzana [1871-1961]), the
third son of the Impressionist painter Camille
Pissaro, who worked as a painter in his
father’s style.

277Y Ф
TWO LARGE RECTANGULAR
IVORY INLAID AND LACQUERED
WOOD PANELS
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Each decorated in shell, ivory and gold
takamaki-e with a complementary design,
one depicting two men beneath flowering
branches of camellia, a courtier standing on
the right hand side, holding in his left hand a
tama (jewel) and a fan in the other, the seated
warrior holding a small statute of a female
deity; the second panel with two Chinese
courtiers beneath a gnarled old pine tree and
two cranes in flight, one with a scroll in his
right hand, pointing at his companion with
his left finger holding a bowl from which a
dragon emerges, all within a lacquered wood
simulated bamboo border, each unsigned.
Each panel approx. 92cm x 67cm
(36¼in x 26 3/8in). (2).

£3,000 - 4,000
JPY410,000 - 550,000
US$3,700 - 5,000

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