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ANTIQUE JAPANESE PAPER HANDSCROLL |
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水墨設色 日本古歌配圖 手軸 |
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Antique Japanese handscroll in ink and color on paper; of poems
and illustrative figural and landscape scenes,
Edo Period; L: 42
ft. (approx.); in wood box; Provenance:
Schellum
Collection, St. Paul MN, exhibited in
University of Minnesota Gallery,
Summer 1970, with original exhibition receipt |
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IFA1207 Lot 359 |
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JAPANESE NARRATIVE PAPER HANDSCROLL |
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水墨設色 平治物語繪詞 手軸 |
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Very elaborately detailed and long, Japanese handscroll in ink
and colors on paper; of a continous historic, narrative figural
scene depicting events taking place in the 12th Century; L: 28
ft (approx.), signed wood box |
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IFA1209 Lot 378 |
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ANTIQUE CHINESE 'IMPERIAL' SILK EDICT |
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五色奉天誥命 |
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Antique Chinese silk edict; mounted as a handscroll with
Japanese lacquered scroll ends; inscription in Chinese and
Manchu: opening with "By Command of Heaven", proclaiming an
honor given to the grandparents of military official
Chen Wen-hui,
dated 36th year of Qianlong
(corresponding to 1771), with two large imperial seal
impressions; L: 131" x 12 1/4"; signed wood box with translation
and pictures inside. (See figures below for more detail.) |
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MS1306 Lot 477 |
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Collection of 24 Various Old Japanese Books |
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Collection of 24 various old Japanese books: some sets and
several individual (all with some wear); L: 12" (largest) |
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Two Japanese & Chinese Art
Reference Books |
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L'Art Japonais, Vol. II by
Louis
Gonse
(1883); 369 pages with 32
plates, many of
which are
chromolithographs, and with
numerous illustrations within the
French
text |
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MS1410 Lot 381
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Two Volumes of Ko-Ji Ho-Ten by V.F. Weber |
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Ko-Ji Ho-Ten: Dictionnaire a l'usage des amateurs et
collectionneurs d'objects d'art Japonais et Chinois Vol. I and
II by V.F. Weber (1965) reprint of 1922 edition; 511/509 + 142
(index) pages with hundreds of black and white illustrations
within the French dictionary; blue leather cover with gilt
titled spine (wear to cover, minor toning and foxing to pages);
15" x 11 1/4" (each) |
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MS1410 Lot 382
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A History of the Japanese
Art & Japanese Print
Booklet |
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A History of the Japanese Art, 3
Vols. translated to English by
Y. Takenobu
(1908) comprised of 103/197/28 pages + index with
plates and illustrations, few in color, with
original cloth bindings; together with sixty pages
of ink and color print on paper depicting numerous
samurais
against a variety of contenders, with accompanying
text to right side (considerable wear to each;
toned, stains and flaws); 19" x 13" (larger) |
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THE ORNAMENTAL ARTS OF JAPAN: Four Volumes |
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日本藝術書籍 四本 |
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The Ornamental Arts of Japan
by George Ashdown
Audsley, in four
large bound volumes, Parts I and II; marked copy
number 268,
of an edition of 500
for American
Subscribers; New
York, Charles
Scribner's Sons 1883
and 1884; mounted with color plates; 16" x 11
3/4" (each approx.) |
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