Page 275 - Fine Japanese Art October 28, 2020 Galerie Zacke

277 | A RARE MAKIMONO WITH 17 SCENES
Japan, 19th century to Meiji period (1868-1912)

Image SIZE 26 x 37 cm each, total SIZE 33.5 x 720 cm
Finely painted and mounted on silk brocade, with 17 different
scenes mostly from the life of samurai: two warriors kneeling in Condition: Good condition with some wear, minor staining, and
front of a warlord with attendants; an archer in a tree shooting at several creases.
warriors fleeing on horseback; a court dignitary or warlord with Provenance: Collection of Wivica Ankarcrona Borell (1935-2019).
attendants; a samurai meditating; five young girls collecting plum Her grandfather Sten Ankarcrona was a Swedish marine officer
tree branches; three samurai walking in a river landscape; five who came to Japan on a special mission in 1923, bringing back
yamabushi warrior monks crossing a stream on a small bridge vast collections of Japanese art and decorating his summer house,
made from branches; an archer on horseback under a flowering creating first a Japanese garden and later a complete Japanese
tree; a straw-camouflaged warrior waiting outside a house; a building as documented in Svenska Hem i ord och bild (Swedish
warrior knocking at a door with further samurai standing outside; Home in Words and Pictures) in 1928, providing a fascinating look
a man, woman, and child by a small hut on a rocky beach; two at this golden age of European collecting. Their guest book contains
samurai entering the house of an alert warrior amid flames; a the signature of the Swedish king Gustav VI Adolf as well as that of
samurai on a ship with further ships in the distance; a feudal lord the Japanese crown prince, later Emperor Akihito.
with two farmers; three farmers in a small village; worshippers in
front of a temple in the rain; and two foreigners kneeling in front of Estimate EUR 1,500
a warlord. Starting price EUR 750

279 | NANMEI: A SPECTACULAR IVORY
FOLDING FAN WITH FINE PAINTINGS is being collected for the impending cold season. The other side
shows a dense composition of a bamboo forest with a large group
By Haruki Nanmei (1795-1878), signed Nanmei with seal of sparrows, some flying and some still on branches. Both paintings
Japan, early Meiji period (1868-1912) are signed and show a red seal, corresponding to Haruki Nanmei.
With string, tassles and a very fine satsuma gilt ojime.
An elaborately and very finely crafted folding fan or ogi in 30 HEIGHT 27 cm, WIDTH 50 cm when opened
segments, each carved from ivory and some with a wavy shape.
The two exterior segments are partly painted with gold lacquer Condition: Superb condition with expected minor creases from
and show fine Shibayama style inlays with a bird, beetle, butterfly, folding the fan.
vines and fruit. The main side shows a large, dense landscape with Provenance: From the private collection of a Corsican seafarer.
a stream and very many pines, through which the snow-covered
Mount Fuji shines in the center. An elderly man and two young Estimate EUR 1,000
Bokudo (ox herders) are shown, each playing the flute, and wood Starting price EUR 500

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