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Lot 33: Antique Asian Scroll Painting, Chrysanthemums

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Asian watercolor on silk scroll painting depicting chrysanthemums. Signature and seal mark upper right. Silk damask mat and molded giltwood frame simulating bamboo. Japanese or Chinese, late 19th to early 20th century. Image: 45 in. H x 16 in. W. Frame: 56 in. H x 23 in. W.  PROVENANCE: Acquired by Ada Vance and Max Vance, […]

Lot 32: Chinese Qing Fan Painting

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Chinese Qing Dynasty fan painting, watercolor on paper, featuring two figures and a man fishing from a boat in a detailed landscape, with calligraphy poem, upper right. Mounted under glass on a damask background in a hardwood frame with curved corners. Image: 8 1/2 in. H x 19 in. W. Frame: 14 in. H x 25 […]

Lot 31: Large Chinese Qing Dynasty Scroll Painting on Silk, Peacock w/ Flowers

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Large Chinese Qing dynasty bird and flower or huaniaohua painting on silk with a peacock that stands by a stream alongside flowering red, white, and pink peony blossoms. With calligraphic inscriptions and five red seals. Housed under glass in a rusticated giltwood frame with green textile liner. Sight: 51 in. H x 30 in. W. Framed: 61 […]

Lot 29: Hasui Japanese Woodblock Print, Lake Matsubara in Shinano Province

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Kawase Hasui (Japan, 1883-1957) oban shin-hanga woodblock print, “Shinshu Matsubarako (Lake Matsubara in Shinano Province),” 1941. A fisherman holds a rod and sits beneath the branches of a tree, with the blue water of Lake Matsubara before him. Published by Shozaburo Watanabe with postwar approximately 6mm publisher’s seal, lower right. With Hasui’s signature and seal in image, lower […]

Lot 28: Clifton Karhu Woodblock Triptych, Nishijin Roofs

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Clifton Karhu (Minnesota/Japan, 1927-2007) ukiyo-e woodblock print triptych, “Nishijin Roofs,” 1983. Slate rooftops in Kyoto’s Nishijin district reflect cool moonlight while warm electric light shines from windows. Numbered 84/100 to left sheet, titled to center sheet, and pencil signed and dated to right sheet, lower margins. Housed under acrylic in a silvered wood frame with navy textile mat and […]

Lot 27: Hashiguchi Goyo Japanese Shin Hanga Woodblock Print, Woman with a Towel

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Hashiguchi Goyo (Japan, 1881-1921) shin-hanga bijinga woodblock print in colors with silver mica and metallic ink embellishment to robe and ring. The Shinbashi geisha Hisae, shown in bust-length, wears a black kimono with butterfly decoration and holds a floral and leaf print towel to her cheek. Signed and dated October 1920 in the block, upper right, with artist’s seal. […]

Lot 26: 3 Chinese Embroideries Incl. Dragons, Forbidden Stitch

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Three (3) Chinese silk embroidery panels including two framed panels with “forbidden stitch” decoration, one that depicts a dragon and one that depicts flowers and precious objects, and one two-part banner with depictions of a bird and dragon. Framed embroideries housed under glass in giltwood frames with black mounts. Banner mounted to ebonized wood baton. Framed sizes: 22 […]

Lot 25: 3 Chinese Forbidden Stitch Silk Embroideries, Framed

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Three (3) Chinese framed “forbidden stitch” silk embroidered panels, two depicting flowers and bats, the third depicting precious objects. Framed sizes: 8 in. W x 19 1/2 in. H; 15 in. H x 14 in. W; and 14 1/2 in. H x 11 3/4 in. W. All early 20th century.  CONDITION: A few scattered thread breaks and […]

Lot 24: Antique Chinese Framed Blue Dragon Robe

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Chinese Blue Silk Dragon Robe, late 19th to early 20th century, embroidered in metallic and colored threads with five-clawed dragons amid cloud scrolls, shou symbols, and rolling waves. Accented with gilt button closures and dragon-motif borders at chest opening and wrists. Mounted to a purple fabric background, under glass, in a shadowbox ebonized frame with gilt edging. Robe: 54 […]