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A SelecTION OF MINIATuRe BlAck A wOOd OcTAgONAl TORO
lAcqueR FuRNITuRe (PORTABle lANTeRN)
Representing the furnishings from a traditional Style of Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875), Meiji
lady’s dressing room including tansu, era (1868-1912), circa 1871
(kimono chest) and kyōdai, mirror stand. Each side inserted with a silk panel, painted
The tansu with designs of cranes in flight in with a continuous scene of lotus leaves and
gold-lacquer, other pieces with all over gilt flowers, the text of a poem alluding to spring
decoration of paulownia flowers and scrolling allegedly written by the artist, spread across
foliage. five panels, the sixth panel with the signature
mirror stand 15.5cm high (9). Rengetsu hachijusai (Rengetsu at the age of
80).
£800 - 1,000 25.5cm x 18.2cm, and with wood storage
box (2).
Sets of this sort are used during ‘Hinamatsuri’
festival day displays. £500 - 600
93 TP The poem reads:
A gIlT-lAcqueR gARMeNT STANd 93
Meiji period Ikade waga /mune no hachisu mo / kaku
The frame comprised of cylindrical-section bakari / hirake somenaba / ureshikaramashi
uprights and cross beams, all decorated with Hachijusai
foliate motifs picked out in gold lacquer.
153cm x 174cm x 39cm If somehow the lotus in my breast, too
would open like these budding [flowers]
£300 - 500 how happy I would be. Age 80
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A BlAck lAcqueR TANSu (cABINeT) A TwO-FOld INlAId lAcqueR
19th century dReSSINg ScReeN
The rectangular top above a pair of sliding Meiji era, 19th century
doors above a pair of hinged doors opening Each panel with a pediment carved and
to reveal three drawers opposite a bank of pierced with a bird amidst prunus branches,
three short drawers, the lower section of two the outer framing carved in relief with tree
graduated drawers and one hinged cupboard shrews among fruiting vine, the panels
door, all decorated in gilt with scenery, birds decorated in high relief to one side with, a
and foliage, raised on bracket feet. hen and two chicks below prunus and tree-
66cm high, 64cm wide, 39cm deep peony issuing from rockwork and to the other
side a single cockerel on rockwork issuing
£800 - 1,200 flowers, carved wood lower panels.
each panel 188cm high, 86cm wide
£500 - 800

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