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766<br />
A small bronze ink cake rest and<br />
five copper tea saucers<br />
19th/20th century<br />
the rectangular ink cake rest<br />
decorated with a lakeside<br />
scene and bearing the mark of<br />
Honma Takusai I; the saucers each<br />
of fan shape decorated with pine<br />
branches and clouds<br />
8cm and 12.5cm wide<br />
$300–500<br />
767<br />
Two cylindrical brushpots<br />
19th/20th century<br />
one decorated in underglaze blue<br />
with precious objects, the other with<br />
floral sprays in underglaze blue and<br />
copper red<br />
13.8 and 14cm high<br />
$400–600<br />
768<br />
A group of three reticulated<br />
jade plaques<br />
one mounted as a brooch and<br />
embellished with a hardstone<br />
cabuchon, and two mounted as<br />
pendants<br />
each 6cm long<br />
$400–500<br />
769<br />
A collection of thirteen books<br />
and publications on Japanese<br />
sculpture, ceramics, calligraphy<br />
and works of art<br />
including: Divine Intervention with<br />
a Human Face: Japanese Buddhist<br />
Wood Sculpture, Sydney L. Moss Ltd.<br />
2020; Art Treasures from Japan,<br />
Pure Form Japanese Sculptural<br />
Ceramics, by Russell Kelty; <strong>The</strong><br />
Poetry of Ink, <strong>The</strong> Korean Literati<br />
Tradition 1392 - 1910, Exhibition<br />
Musee Guimet, Paris, 2005; 50th<br />
Anniversary Exhibition, Idemitsu<br />
Museum of Arts, Ko-Garatsu, <strong>The</strong><br />
Age of Great Ceramics and Roku<br />
Koro, Six Old Kilns, Ceramics of<br />
Japan; <strong>The</strong> Unknown Craftsman,<br />
A Japanese Insight into Beauty, by<br />
Soetsu Yang<br />
$100–200<br />
770<br />
A blanc de chine censer<br />
the cylindrical sides with horizontal<br />
ribbing supported on three bracket<br />
feet, covered with a creamish glaze<br />
suffused with fine dark speckling, the<br />
interior partly unglazed<br />
12cm diameter<br />
$200–300<br />
771<br />
Two jade bi discs<br />
one carved with straight edges from<br />
a faintly mottled white stone; the<br />
other of pale celadon tone with faint<br />
russet suffusions carved with slightly<br />
convex sides and indented central<br />
aperture<br />
5.7cm and 4.6cm diameter<br />
$300–500<br />
772<br />
A group of five celadon jade<br />
carvings<br />
comprising a small archaistic cong;<br />
a triangular seal; a miniature cong;<br />
and two small finial pendants<br />
5.5cm to 2cm<br />
$400–600<br />
773<br />
Three small jade pendants<br />
comprising a white jade bat with a<br />
cash on the reverse; a pale celadon<br />
goose; and a celadon and russet<br />
winged insect<br />
4.5cm and 4cm long<br />
$200–400<br />
774<br />
Two ivory figure groups<br />
Meiji period<br />
one of a maiden standing holding<br />
a fan watching a boy with a sieve<br />
kneeling at her side; the other of<br />
three women, one seated holding a<br />
child, unsigned<br />
9.5cm and 8cm high<br />
$400–600 ♦<br />
775<br />
An ivory okimono<br />
Meiji period<br />
of a figure standing, wearing a long<br />
robe and cap, holding the foot of an<br />
oni climbing onto her head, wood<br />
stand<br />
14cm high<br />
$400–600 ♦<br />
776<br />
A doucai enamelled meiping<br />
20th century<br />
the sides painted with three dragons<br />
among cloud scrolls above a band of<br />
crested waves, Jiaqing seal mark<br />
17.5cm high<br />
$400–600<br />
777<br />
A bronze figure of Daikoko<br />
late Meiji period<br />
standing on two bales of rice, a rat<br />
climbing up one bale, holding a mallet<br />
in his right hand and clasping a large<br />
bag over his shoulder<br />
20.5cm high<br />
$400–500<br />
778<br />
Two wood block prints<br />
attributed to Utagawa Kuniyoshi<br />
Yasuda Takubee Kunitomo<br />
and Negoro no Komidzucha, framed<br />
each 35.5cm x 24cm<br />
NOTE<br />
For a description and illustration of<br />
these prints see, Elena Varshavskaya,<br />
Heroes of the Grand Pacification<br />
Kuniyoshi's Taiheiki eiyu den, nos. 30<br />
and 26<br />
PROVENANCE<br />
Japanese Gallery, Kensington Church<br />
Street, London, 10 April, 2008<br />
$400–600