Page 66 - Bonhams Fine Japanese Art London Nov. 2019

99 (reverse)

99 Y Ф
A GOLD-LACQUER AND IVORY INLAID DANCER
By Shibayama Eisei, Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Standing, looking down to her right while clutching
a closed metal in each hand, her kimono bearing
a rich kinji ground, lacquered in gold takamaki-e,
kirikane, okibirame and togidashi maki-e with irises
and other plants growing beside meandering streams,
her sumptuous obi fitted with a shibuichi obidome in
the form of a chrysanthemum blossom and similarly
decorated with stylized flowers and fragmented
shippo-tsunagi (linked-cash) designs, her head, hands
and feet of ivory, her elaborately coiffed hair adorned
with a comb and enamel flower; signed on the base in
a mother-of-pearl tablet Eisei.
31.8cm (12½in) high.
£4,000 - 6,000
100 JPY530,000 - 790,000
US$4,900 - 7,400

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
64 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.