4511 - 4665 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS
- A few unobtrusive (very) small waterstains in the blue background.
= A beautifully detailed portrait of a prince wearing a magnificent robe decorated with hunting scenes. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.
- A few unobtrusive very small waterstains in the blue background; corners of outer border sl. darkened; crack of 5 mm. in outer lower left corner; a few tiny rubbed spots in outer borders.
= A fine detailed portrait of a princess wearing a dress w. floral decoration under two layers of diaphanous veils covered with a very subtle painted pattern of gold decoration, the gilt stripes of the inner veil enriched w. numerous tiny pits. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.
- Some flaking of paint affecting inter alia the right leg of the seated nobleman, the canopy under which he is seated and the face and arm of one of the musicians.
- Waterstained; mounted on board along margins. Probably a preparative design for a miniature).
WITH another anonymous drawing of a prince seated on a dais (pencil and watercolour on paper, 16,1x10,5 cm., 18th cent.(?), with (unread) Persian annotation in top and lower margins. Sl. creased and fingersoiled; tipped onto modern cloth on mount).
- Colours faded; margins extended w. Japanese paper.
= Sadahide created several of these views, called Daimyo's Processions passing along the Tokaido.
- Very vague waterstain in lower left corner. = From the collection Matsumoto (stamp on verso).
Idem. (Village street view). Col. woodcut ôban, signed "Kiyoshi Saito" in black ink(?), w. artist's seal.
= From the collection Matsumoto.
- Sl. creased.
Anonymous (19th cent.). (A man sitting in a boat on a river). Kakejiku (hanging scroll), brush and ink on paper, within dec. silk borders, 107x24,5 cm. (image), 170x34,5 cm. (scroll), signature and seal unread, rolled on wooden jikugi.
- Sl. creased.
AND 2 other scrolls, i.a. a 19th cent. facsimilé of a horizontal landscape scroll by SESSHU.
- Lid broken.
- Sm. dam. spot in upper part silk border; sl. age-toned.
- Image and borders sl. nibbled by silverfish en occas. w. some wormholes.