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Lot 240 Dα

A round red lacquer tray. Late 19th century

Auction 1190 - overview Cologne
11.12.2021, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
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A round red lacquer tray. Late 19th century

Painted with a hare pounding mochi and standing on clouds in finely drawn black lacquer lines. Inscription reading: gyonen nanajunana so (old man at the age of 77 years) Zeshin. The base lacquered black. Small silver lacquer repairs to the rim evoking mochi-sprinkles. Wooden box with a long inscription dated Showa 1957, at the side an old paper label reading: Zeshin urushi-e shu bon.
Height 2.9 cm; diameter 24 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Berlin

Literature

Cf. a similar motif in: The Art of Shibata Zeshin. The Mr and Mrs James O'Brien Collection at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Honolulu 1979, p. 151, ill. 89