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JAPANESE WORKS OF ART

6001 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A GENTLEMAN
A PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL GROUP
Meiji era 6005
Depicting Ebisu kneeling on a small boat, the deity laughing as he A LARGE SATSUMA EARTHENWARE VASE
pulls in a large red sea bream with a slender bamboo fishing pole Meiji era
held in his right hand, cast in three sections, the stern of the boat Decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt with a bearded Daoist
sealed Shinko/Nobumitsu (some loss of patina). sage riding on cresting waves above a large white-hued dragon
15 1/4in (38.6cm) long and accompanied by numerous Buddhist rakan in an imaginary
landscape with pavilions and temple buildings, a pair of smaller
$800 - 1,200 dragons encircling the shoulder, portions of the design rendered in
high relief, the cartouche on the base with a Shimizu family crest and
6002 inscribed Dai Nihon moto Satsuma-yaki Yoshiyama kore [o] tsukuru
A LARGE BRONZE SUIBAN WITH HO-O DECORATION (wear to gilt).
24 3/8in (62cm) high
Meiji/Taisho era
The low set body rendered in the form of an archaic Chinese bronze
basin (pan) and raised on three low feet in the form of scudding $3,000 - 5,000
waves, the exterior walls cast with alternating phoenix motifs set
against a scroll-filled ground (solder repairs). PROPERTY FROM THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM,
11in (28cm) high PORTLAND, OREGON, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE MUSEUM
23 1/4in (59cm) diameter ACQUISITION FUND
$3,000 - 5,000 6006
A GROUP OF SEVEN IMARI PORCELAIN CONTAINERS
6003 Taisho/Showa era
A SMALL BRONZE URN Comprising a pair of chrysanthemum flower-shaped dishes with
Edo period lobed rims and ribbon patterns converging on a phoenix and
Of baluster form supported on a pedestal foot, the neck flanked paulownia blossom roundel; a large bowl with incised ribs to the
by stylized dragon handles, cast with four recessed panels each exterior walls; a small deep bowl; a large bowl molded in twelve
enclosing depictions of the Four Mythical Creatures (dragon, kirin, lobes; an octagonal bowl with openwork panels; and a small deep
phoenix and ‘tortoise’) silhouetted against a bronze patinated ground bowl (wear to enamels).
(wear, dent to rim). 12 5/8 to 7 1/4in (32 to 18.5cm) diameters
8 3/8in (21.3cm) high
$500 - 750
$1,000 - 1,500
6007
6004 A GROUP OF FOUR CERAMICS
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE URN AND MATCHING STAND 18th century and later
Meiji era The first an Arita jar with underglaze blue decoration and later
The globular urn with a wide trumpet mouth, cloud-form handles overglaze enamel decoration (losses, altered); the second an Imari
and high splayed foot resting on a separately fashioned rectangular style double gourd bottle with raised chrysanthemum flower heads
plinth with slightly rounded sides and pierced cloud-form apertures (chipped); the third a camellia leaf green oil dish stamped Bunzan
to the short sides, the exterior of each piece molded in low-relief with (chipped, wear); the fourth a Kakiemon style enameled lozenge-
numerous cranes flying amid stylized clouds, the celadon-glazed shape dish centered with a fruiting pomegranate branch.
motifs reserved on a dark cobalt-blue ground (restorations to rim and 9 5/8in (24.5cm) height of gourd bottle
foot).
15in (38cm) height of vase $300 - 500
4 7/8 x 19 7/8 x 15in (12.5 x 50.5 x 38cm) dimensions of stand
$1,500 - 2,500

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