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PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER PROPERTY FROM AN OREGON ESTATE

9044 9047
A WHITE SLIP-INLAID CELADON BOTTLE ANONMYOUS, KANO SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)
Goryeo dynasty, 12th/13th century One Hundred Children
Molded with a narrow waisted neck rising above the wide canted Mid-size six-panel folding screen, ink and color on paper; featuring
shoulder inlaid with a flock of cranes flying amid clouds bordered by over one hundred Chinese children (karako) engaged in various
cloud collar and leaf scroll bands, the ovoid walls inlaid with opposing games and other activities, including adult entertainments such as
branches of stylized peony and asters, the densely crazed glaze of the ‘Four Accomplishments’ (kinki shoga) (extensive wear).
uneven olive green color covering most surfaces including a portion 49 x 117 1/8in (124.7 x 297.6cm)
of the shallow recessed base (neck repaired, firing cracks).
10 1/2in (26.7cm) high US$800 - 1,200

US$1,000 - 1,500 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A PROMINENT BAY AREA
COLLECTOR
PROPERTY PURCHASED BY AN AMERICAN VETERAN OF THE
KOREAN WAR WHILE STATIONED IN JAPAN, 1953-1954 9048
VARIOUS ARTISTS (20TH CENTURY)
9045 Two hanging scrolls
UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST (JOSEON DYNASTY (1392-1897), Daruma, ink and light color on silk, signed/sealed Shoun (toned)
18TH/19TH CENTURY 32 1/8 x 10 7/8in (81.8 x 25.7cm);
Prunus Dragon Emerging from Clouds, ink on paper, signed/sealed [illegible]
Hanging scroll, ink on paper; depicting a boldly brushed tree trunk (wrinkles).
issuing slender twigs of blossoms, surrounded by a poem of 28 45 x 10in (114.4 x 25.4cm)
Chinese characters and a painted square seal to the lower left
possibly reading [Sa] hae kaek (Guest of the Four Seas) US$800 - 1,000
37 x 22 3/8in (94 x 57cm)

US$1,000 - 1,500 9049
VARIOUS ARTISTS (20TH CENTURY)
The thick strokes forming the tree trunk recall a paintings of the same A group of six prints
subject by the 17th century painter Cho Sok (1595-1668), now in Each framed and glazed, comprising:
the National Museum of Korea, illustrated in Yu Pong-nyol, Han’guk a) Tanaka Ryohei (b. 1933), three etchings, each pencil signed T.
hoehwa taegwan (Overview of Korean Painting), Seoul, Mungyowon, Ryohei, including Tsuruya Road, 32/100, 9 x 7 1/2in (21.8 x 19.1cm)
1979, p. 242, no. 129. The spaces left on the paper between the sight; Drying Radishes, 1978, 66/120, 10 1/2 x 13in (26.8 x 32.8cm)
trunk itself and the outlined knots in the bark, as if independent of the sight; and Mt. Ibuki - Early Spring, 1980, 41/100, 9 3/8 x 20 3/8in
bark, also appear in an album of eight prunus branches attributed to (24.8 x 51.8cm) sight
Cho Sok illustrated in Musée Guimet The Poetry of Ink: The Korean b) Tomita Fumio (b. 1934), A Point of Contact 76-54, color
Literati Tradition 1392-1910, Paris, 2005, cat. no. 74, pp. 140-141. serigraph, 1954, 13/50, pencil signed, 10 7/8 x 10 3/4in (27.5 x
27.4cm) sight
PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER c) Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997), Maiko, Kyoto (H), woodblock print,
1961, 43/300, signed in ink (toned), 21 1/4 x 15 1/4in (54.3 x
9046 39.2cm) sight
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1787-1856) d) Ouchi Makoto (1926-1989), Iro, color etching, 9/80, pencil
Kakegawa Akiba-yama embo signed, 22 x 16 3/4in (56 x 42.7cm) sight
(Distant View of Mount Akiba at Kakegawa) [#27] from the series
Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi no uchi (Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido), c. US$600 - 800
1833-34, signed Hiroshige ga, published by Hoeido - oban yoko-e;
good impression and color, soiled, some toning, rubbed, binding
holes, vertical crease
9 3/8 x 14 5/8in (24 x 37.2cm)

US$500 - 750

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