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GA053 | The Spring Auction Series

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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

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