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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 […]

Lot 23: Satsuma Porcelain Cricket Cage

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Meiji Satsuma porcelain cricket cage, footed basket form with pierced lid, the sides finely decorated in a varied palette with vignettes containing landscapes, figures, and insects among flowers. Signed in gilt paint to underside. 4 3/4 in. H x 3 1/4 in. Diameter. Japanese, late 19th century.  PROVENANCE: The estate of Ann B. Lee, Franklin, […]