JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART 23 march 2022

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SCHOOL OF HISHIKAWA MORONOBU (1618-1694)
Figures Playing Sugoroku (Backgammon)
Edo period (1615-1868), second half of the
17th century
Fragment of a hand scroll mounted as a hanging scroll, painted in
ink, colors, and gold on silk with beauties and dandies engaged in a
board game before a curtain decorated with cherry blossoms
With a wood storage box bearing an old collection label sealed WSB
(possibly William Sturgis Bigelow)
10 7/8 x 15 1/16in (27.7 x 38.3cm)
$2,500 - 4,000
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AFTER KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO (1726-1792)
Standing Beauty
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century
The painting of ink, colors, and gold on silk, depicting a standing
beauty, her lips parted in a gentle smile exposing her ohaguro
blackened teeth, her outer kimono decorated in flowers and folding
fan faces, red and gold threads hanging from several parts of
her kimono almost flamelike; signed Katsu Shunsho ga and an
unidentified seal
With double wood tomobako storage box, the lid of the interior box
inscribed in gold lacquer Shunsho hitsu tachi bijin no zu (Picture of
standing beauty brushed by Shunsho)
38 3/4 x 12 5/8in (98.4 x 32cm)
$1,000 - 1,500
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