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2093
A SEATED WOOD FIGURE OF SHO-KANNON
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
Of yosei-zukuri (joined block) construction, carved as Sho-Kannon
seated with one leg folded under, and the other somewhat pendant,
the left hand open in a welcoming gesture and the right poised to
hold a lotus (now lost), the robes loosely draped across the legs and
thrown over the left shoulder, scarves falling over the forearms, the
hair swept up and piled on the head and held with a nyoi-head jewel
above a simple crown, the eyes and ushnisha inlaid in crystal
16 1/2in (41.9cm) high

US$5,000 - 7,000
2094
A LATER KEI SCHOOL ZUSHI WITH THREE DEITIES
By Koun, Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1746
The black-lacquer cabinet with hinged doors opening to reveal
figures of Fudo Myo-o flanked by Nyorai Kojin, and Aizen Myo-o, all
carved and assembled in wood and painted in pigments and gilt,
with applied jewelry and accouterments and set on a multi-tiered
dais, inscribed on the underside of the cabinet

不動明王, 如来荒神, 愛染明王 三尊

落陽七條大仏筋運慶嫡博十八世
京西六條天使製作者大仏師康雲
延享二年作（一七四六年）

Fudo Myo-o, Nyorai Kojin, Aizen Myo-o sanzon
Rakuyo Shichijo Daibutsu suji Unkei chakuden juhachi-sei
Kyosai Rokujo Tenshi seisakusha Daibusshi Kouun
Enkyo ninen saku
(A triad of Fudo Myo-o, Nyorai Kojin, and Aizen Myo-o, made by
the Buddhist sculptor Koun of Tenshi, Rokujo, Western Kyoto,
eighteenth-generation direct descendant of the great sculptor Unkei
[circa 1150-1223) of Shichijo, Kyoto, 1745)
Fudo: 16 1/2in (41.9cm); Aizen: 13 1/8in (33.3cm); Nyorai Kojin: 12
1/2in (31.8cm) high; Cabinet: 22 x 21 3/4 x 10 1/4in (55.8 x 55.2 x
26cm)

US$18,000 - 25,000

2093 The inscription on the underside of the case indicates that all three
figures were carved by a Kyoto sculptor named Koun, purportedly
the 18th descendant in the lineage of Unkei.

2094

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