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1163 OGATA KORIN (JAPAN, 1658-1716)
Three Deer

Hanging scroll, ink, color and gold pigment on
paper, mounted onto a painting of bush clover
(hagi) by Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858), the inset sketch
sealed Korin, the outer painting with inscription and
signed Seisei Kiitsu and sealed Shukurin
31 x 18Ω in. (79 x 47 cm.), excluding mount
$30,000-40,000

PROVENANCE
S. Yabumoto Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 1989.
The Irving Collection, no. 1652.
EXHIBITED
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, East
Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving
Collection, 22 November 1991- 23 February 1992.
LITERATURE
James C. Y. Watt, and Barbara Brennan Ford, East
Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving
Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
1991, p. 269, no. 136.
Anita Christy, “The Irving Collection: At Home in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art”, Orientations,
November 1991, p. 65, fg. 8.
日本 尾形光琳（1658-1716） 三鹿圖

1164 SAKAI HOITSU (JAPAN, 1761-1829)
Sparrows Amongst Hollyhocks

Hanging scroll, ink, color and gold pigment on silk,
signed Hoitsu hitsu and with artist’s seal Bunsen
56 x 19 in. (142 x 48 cm.), excluding mount
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
Alice Boney, New York, 1983.
The Irving Collection, no. 637.
日本 酒井抱一（1761-1829） 葵花麻雀圖

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