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Lot 21: 2 Asian Archaistic Ghandaran Style Buddha Head Sculptures

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1st item: Afghan Ghandaran style ceramic Buddha head with half-closed eyes, mounted to a square wooden stand with old sticker label. 11 1/2" H x 3 1/2" W x 4" D. Museum documentation states circa 4th century. 2nd item: Japanese Ghandaran style carved wooden Buddha head with closed eyes and inset stones, mounted to a […]

Lot 20: Pair of Framed Japanese Scroll Paintings, Summer and Spring

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Pair of framed Japanese scroll paintings, gouache and watercolor on paper, including one spring scene depicting various colored flowers and one summer scene depicting a red maple tree with white flowers at it's base and mist obscuring several branches. Both with one circular red seal lower left corner and both are framed with silk brocade […]

Lot 19: Tibetan Thangka, The Wheel of Life, Bhavachakra or Samsara

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Southeast Asian Tibetan Buddhist Thangka painting depicting The Perfect Wheel of Life imagery, the Bhavachakra or Samsara, conveying a symbolic representation of cyclic existence, with themes of karma, rebirth, life, death, and suffering in a journey towards enlightenment or Nirvana. The inner wheel is divided into segments with figural imagery depicting the spheres of existence […]

Lot 18: Yeu-Qua Chinese Export Portrait Miniature of Marion Stewart Forsyth-Antisell

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Yeu-Qua or Yeuqua (Chinese, fl. 1860-1885) miniature watercolor bust portrait of Marion Stewart Forsyth-Antisell of Detroit, Michigan (b. 1830-d.1882), as a young woman, with upswept brunette hair wearing a black dress with white collar and necktie along with gold earrings and a gold brooch. Pencil inscription en verso of wafer reads "Ivory miniature of Marion […]

Lot 17: 4 Japanese Shin-Hanga Woodblock Prints incl. Shiro, Shotei, plus 1 Watercolor, Total 5

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1st item: Kasamatsu Shiro (Japan, 1898-1991) color woodblock print entitled Pagoda in Evening Rain and depicting a tall pagoda during a rain shower at dusk. A woman or bijin walks through the foreground and holds an umbrella, with embossing to umbrella and figure's hands. Published by Shozaburo Watanabe with the publisher's "D" seal, used 1931-1941, […]

Lot 16: Drawing of Jurolin attr. Hokusai, ex-Ernest Fenollosa

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Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai (Japan, 1760-1849) brushed ink on paper sketch depicting the bearded figure of Jurojin, god of longevity, accompanied by a mino-game (a long-lived turtle with algae resembling hair growing from its shell). Jurojin smiles faintly as he opens his Scroll of Life, which states the lifespan of all living things. On laid […]

Lot 15: Hasui Kawase Japanese Woodblock Print, Zojoji Temple, early 1930s

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Hasui Kawase (Japan, 1883-1957), “Zojoji Temple in Snow,” vertical oban color woodblock print depicting Tokyo’s famous Zojo-ji Temple in a snowstorm at night. A woman or bijin whose face is hidden behind an umbrella walks through the foreground. With embossing to umbrella. From Hasui’s Twenty Views of Tokyo series. Published by Shozaburo Watanabe with the […]

Lot 14: 4 Japanese Meiji Period Satsuma Items

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Four (4) Japanese Meiji Period Satsuma porcelain items. 1st item: Plate with symmetrical design of numerous ladies in court dress surrounding a central medallion of a bird upon a patterned gilt ground. Character mark inscribed in red to underside. 8 3/8" dia. 2nd-3rd items: Two (2) baluster form vases with vignettes of an interior domestic […]

Lot 13: 3 Chinese Porcelain Figures, Polychrome and Blanc De Chine

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1st item: Chinese polychrome earthenware standing figure of a male immortal depicted in traditional robed clothing with foliate decoration, holding an object in one hand and standing on a blue-tiered base. 9" H x 3" W x 1 3/4" D. 19th century. 2nd item: Chinese porcelain polychrome standing female figure or Guanyin attired in a […]