Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/524
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 Gold lacquer Box, quadrangular, fitted with a tray and foursmal]! boxes shaped as books, on the cover a view of a group of temples, on the sides landscapes, inside and base NASHIJI ; on the tray a long-tailed bird on a rose-bush, the small boxes decorated with brocade designs, very jine work ; 42 in. by 34h in. | (6) NATSUME, black TAKAMAKIYE, with gold flowering plants behind a garden fence inlaid mother o’-pear] and Jead in KORIN style, inside gold lacquer; in silk bag, in box (3) NATSUME, finely polished red wood, with narcissus and other flowers in high relief of mother-o’-pearl and lacquer ; signed HOKyO KOrIN ; inside polished wood, in wrap (2) NATSUME, with sides tapering upwards, HIRAMAKIYE, one half red the other half black, decorated with iris leaves and flowers, on the lid a gold line concentric circle surroui ded by GIOBU NASHIJI ; black inside KOGU, HIRAMAKIYE, cylindrical, the sides with CHIDOR] flying above waves on a NASHIJI ground; silver cover pierced with chrysanthemoid design ; in wood box (3) TE-BAKO, HIRAMAKIYE, square, with floral design on a NASHIJI ground, with pewter OKI-GUCHI, black insides; a small hexagonal Box, with various diaper designs, in wood box ; and a small square Box, TOGIDASHI, with view of the Kiyo- mizu temple | (4) A circular Box, compressed spherical, on the lid a black crow in flight on a cherry Jac KINFUNDAME ground, inside NASHIJJI, signed ZESHIN ; and another, with grasshopper and leaves in KORIN style (2) NATSUME, TSUISHU lacquer, red, gourd-shaped, carved in hori- zontal lines, gilt rims, black inside, in silk bag; and a TsutsHu Box, formed as a dog-shaped cushion, red, with diaper design (3) Kusaku Myo-6 (Skt. Mayira Vidyaraja) seated on a standing peacock with up-spread tail, in front of two circular haloes, six-armed, the right top hand supports a halbeid, the lower two arrows, the left top hand holds a DORJEsurmounted by flame held on the point of the index finger, lower holds a bow, the two main hands are in adoration, palms joined fingers upward ; one of only ten copies, a Tajima reproduc- tion of a XIIth or XIITth century painting bythe Chinese Sramed
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