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JAPANESE PRINTS, PAINTINGS PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF HERBERT EVANS
AND SCREENS AND MIRIAM SIMPSON
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF SYLVIA MCLAUGHLIN, 9030
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA A GROUP OF TWENTY-ONE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTED
BOOKS (FACSIMILES)
9026 Comprising: Churui gafu (Album of Selected Insects), Tokyo: Okura
A CARVED AND PAINTED FOUR-PANEL WOOD SCREEN shoten, 1892; one volume facsimile of Ehon mushi erabi by Kitagawa
Meiji era Utamaro; Nihon fuzoku zue (Illustrations of Japanese Customs and
The main panels with openwork carving of a rooster and hen feeding Manners), complied by Kurokawa Mamichi (Tokyo, 1914-15), twelve
in a flowering landscape with a large prunus tree, the lower rectangular volumes re-engraved after original works by famous print artists; Seiro
panels pierced with blossoming orchids, the details defined in bright bijin awase sugata kagami (A Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Green
polychrome pigments; each of the panels set within a mottled lacquer Houses Compared), edited by Kubota Beisai (Tokyo, 1916), three
frame and attached by plaited sink cord hinges (himo chotsugai) volume facsimile of illustrations by Katsukawa Shunsho and Kitao
(soiled silk backing). Shigemasa; Seiro bijin awase (Beautiful Women of the Green Houses
42 X 59 3/4in (106.7 x 152.cm) Compared), edited by Kubota Beisai (Tokyo, 1917), five woodblock
printed volumes after illustrations by Suzuki Harunobu; (some with
staining).
US$800 - 1,200 US$400 - 600
PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER PROPERTY FROM THE JOYCE B. DOHENY TRUST
9027 9031
A DECORATED CYPRESS PANEL (SUGIDO) RINPA SCHOOL (18TH/19TH CENTURY)
Edo period Seasonal Flowers
A pair of mid-size doors, now mounted together within a black Six panel paintings, ink, color and gofun on paper, mounted and
lacquered frame, ink and color on a natural wood ground; depicting framed, originally a large six-panel folding screen of the oshiebari type;
a pair of pheasants (yamadori) with a chick in a flowering landscape, each panel devoted to seasonal foliage, including chrysanthemum,
unsigned (extensive wear). bush clover, nandina, taro, poppies and flowering gourd vines,
33 1/2 x 63 3/4in (85 x 161.6cm) overall executed in the mukotsu (boneless) manner with areas of tarashikomi
and moriage, one panel with a red circular Inen seal (extensively
US$600 - 800 sunstruck, faded and stained).
47 1/4 x 16 1/2in (120 x 42cm) dimensions of paintings
PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO ESTATE, 69 1/2 x 22 3/4in (176.4 x 57.4cm) panels overall
THE COLLECTION FORMED PRIOR TO THE 1970S
US$1,000 - 1,500
9028 PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
KITAGAWA UTAMARO (?- 1806) AND UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI
(1769-1825) 9032
Four woodblock prints YOSHINARI (MID-20TH CENTURY)
Oban tate-e; the first a triptych set titled Fishing Boats with Nets under Enso
Ryogoku Bridge, circa 1790, signed Utamaro-ga - poor condition; the Hanging scroll, ink on paper; the enso, or Zen circle, is accompanied
last a single sheet from a triptych titled On a Balcony Overlooking the by two characters in cursive script, signed Yoshinari (associated with
Bay at Shinagawa, signed Toyokuni-ga - fair impression, faded, soiled, Daitoku-ji), with one seal (minor wrinkles).
framed and glazed. 31 1/8 x 12 7/8in (79 x 32.5cm)
13 7/8 x 9 1/4 (35 x 23.7cm) sight (last print)
US$800 - 1,200 US$600 - 800
PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER 9033
NAKABAYSHI CHIKKEI (1816-1867)
9029 Waterfall
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) AND SHOSAI IKKEI (CA. 1870S) Hanging scroll, ink line and wash on silk; of a waterfall cascading
Three woodblock prints over a rocky cliff scattered with foliage, inscribed with the cyclical
The first two signed Hiroshige ga: an oban yoko-e entitled Shirasuka date kanoto-tori shun-getsu utsusu (executed 1861, summer month),
from the series Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido, published by signed Chikkei Gyo, with two seals, one reading Seigyo.
Hoeido - late impression, loss to left corner, and an oban tate-e 46 5/8 x 11in (118.5 x 27.8cm)
entitled Kinokuni Hill & Distant View of Akasaka Tameike from One
Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1857 - good impressions and color, US$600 - 800
trimmed; the third an oban tate-e entitled Oji from Thrity-Six Famous
Places of Tokyo, 1872, signed Shosai Ikkei hitsu - fair impression,
soiled, rubbed.
9 3/4 x 14 3/8in (24.6 x 36.6cm) dimensions of first
US$300 - 400
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