1st item: Chinese ink and watercolor landscape scroll painting with travelling figures. Signed with red seal lower left. Mounted on beige silk brocade. Image – 38 1/2" H x 15 1/2" W. Overall – 73" H x 20" W. 2nd item: Chinese ink and watercolor snowscape scroll painting with lone figure and horse with snow […]
Lot 400: Hiroshi Yoshida Woodblock, Suzukawa
Hiroshi Yoshida (Japan, 1876-1950) woodblock print, SUZUKAWA, circa 1935, titled in pencil lower left and signed lower right. Image: 9-3/4" x 14-3/4". Sight: 10-1/2" x 15-1/2". Matted and housed in giltwood frame with ripple molding.19-1/4" x 21-1/4". Condition: Moderate toning.
Lot 401: 2 Japanese Woodblock Prints
1st item: Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806) wood block print depicting a geisha holding an umbrella, walking with her servant who is carrying her musical instrument and lantern under a snowy night. Signed with seal lower right. Float mounted in frame. Sight -15 1/8″ H x 10 1/8″ W. Framed – 22 1/2″ H x 16″ W. […]
Lot 396: Asian Gilt Lacquer Boxes & Celadon Bowl, 5 items
1st item: Gilt lacquered box in the form of a reclining deer. 4 1/2"H x 8"W x 4"D.20th century. 2nd – 4th items: Pair of gilt and lacquer matchboxes with bird and foliate decoration and red and gilt lacquer pill box. Matchboxes measure – 1 3/4" W x 1 1/4" H. 2 1/2" W x […]
Lot 395: 2 Chinese Carved Boxes inc. Buddha Hand
1st item: Chinese hardwood box carved in the shape of citron fruit, also known as “Buddha’s Hands” with leaves and vine. 3 1/4″ H x 7″ W. 2nd item: Chinese hardwood box carved in the shape of a peach with attached branch and leaves. 3 3/4″H x 6″ W. Both boxes 20th century. Provenance: the […]
Lot 394: Chinese Cinnabar Covered Round Box
Large Chinese cinnabar lacquer covered box, circular form, the top having carved landscape decoration including a central pine tree, and the sides with carved crane and peach decoration. Raised six character Hsuan Te mark to base. Fitted with a carved hard wood stand. 12 1/4" dia. x 6" H. 8 1/2" total height with stand. […]
Lot 392: Chinese Stone Seals, poss. Tianhuang
A collection of Chinese carved amber-colored hardstone seals, possibly Shoushan or Tianhuang, including three single stone seals, each with incised decoration, and one box with carved lift top enclosing four small seals. 1-1/8"h to 2-3/8"H. Condition: Very good condition with some natural fissures to stones and minor wear.
Lot 393: Signed Cloisonne Box, attrib. Seizaburo Goto
Cloisonne box attributed to Seizaburo Goto, oblong with black ground; dragon decoration and geometric border to lid, the sides with flower and magic fungus decoration, the interior lined with silk brocade, signed on interior brass rim. Additional floral decoration to underside. 1-3/4" x 4-3/4" x 3-1/4", Japanese, Meiji period, late 19th to early 20th century. […]
Lot 390: 2 Asian Bronze vases
1st item: Japanese Meiji period bronze vase with applied flowering branch decoration to the body. Base with incised seal mark.10 1/2" H, Top 5" dia. Late 19th/ Early 20th century. 2nd item: Chinese bronze vase or vessel, with allover banded relief foliate and geometric decoration. 7 1/2" H, 5"dia. at widest point. Late 19th/Early 20th […]
Lot 387: 3 Chinese Scholar's Items plus brushes
3 Chinese scholar's items, including a hardwood brush pot, likely Zitan, 5-1/8"H; a carved and lacquered ink stone with characters on one side and landscape scene on reverse, 7"L, in fitted case; and an amber colored scholar's rock, probably Shoushan, carved in a landscape scene depicting two figures at water's edge with boat nearby, 2-5/8"H. […]