4611 - 4784 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL and TRIBAL ARTS
- Horizontal fold (only visible on verso), otherwise fine.
- All (sl.) yellowed; one drawing browned.
- Backed. Otherwise fine.
= From the series Sansho Goshi (Portraits of Sansho). The blue robe with nice shomen-zuri (burnishing) pattern.
- Laid down on board; browned; corners rubbed. = Possibly an 18th cent. copy.
AND 4 others, i.a. MIZUNO, (Two women at snowy bank) (col. woodcut kuchi-e, printed w. silver pigment, artist's seal printed in red. Fine) and SHONEN, (Locomotive and steamboats) (fanshaped col. woodcut, signed Shonen. Sl. yellowed and a few sl. dustsoiled spots; central fold).
- Very fine.
= From the series Shinsen Taiko Ki (New Biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi). Rare.
- With some extensive wear.
= According to an annotation of a former owner on the foot of the pedestal this statue is from the collection of Charles Bieth. There is a museum Charles Bieth in Ivory Coast.
= Provenance: gallery Wolfgang Jaenicke.
- Heavily worn.