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ANONYMOUS, TOSA SCHOOL of the country’s largest tea importers (the company began as Carter,
Scenes from Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji) Hawley & Co., grocers in New York City). George H. Macy was in
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century charge of the company’s foreign assets, including all the facilities
A large six-panel screen, ink, colors, gold, and gold leaf on paper, along the Pacific Rim. Upon his death in 1917, the screen passed
depicting three scenes from the Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji), to one of his sons, was sold to family friends during the Depression,
the right side featuring Tokonatsu (Chapter 26), E-awase (Chapter 17) then returned to a Macy descendant years later.
in the center, and Wakamurasaki (Chapter 5) at the left, the vignettes
punctuated by gold clouds in moriage relief, an attribution to the 1084
court artist Tosa Mitsunari (1646-1710) appears in Japanese on
an old label affixed to one edge of the screen YUKIMINE (ACTIVE CIRCA 1900)
54 3/4 x 144 3/4in (139 x 367.6cm) A four-panel ornamental padded-textile screen
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early
20th century
$7,000 - 9,000 Made in the oshi-e (padded silk) technique, depicting a procession
of a court noble beneath flying cranes, a high-ranking nobleman
Provenance mounted on horseback leads from the front while others on foot
George H. Macy accompany the palanquin, lower-ranking samurai and attendants
Previously sold, these Rooms, September 13, 2011, lot 2288. carry all the paraphernalia, all on a gold-painted silk background,
signed Yukimine and sealed Torin no in
This screen is said to have been purchased in Japan by George H. 67 x 83 (170.2 x 210.8cm) overall; 50 1/4 x 83in (127.6 x 210.8cm)
Macy. For many years Macy ran a subsidiary of his family’s company, (image only)
Carter, Macy, and Co., which in the late nineteenth century was one
$3,000 - 5,000

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