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Uchida Art Publishers, Kyoto ALBUM FOR NOH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, Purple cloth board accordion album with 15 double page woodblock prints by Takeshida Hiroshi depicting the instruments and masks used in Noh plays, dated Showa 4 (1929), all in the original straw-lined board case, 15.4" x 10.6" x 1.6" — 39 x 27 x 4 cm. Provenance: A Collection of East Asian Art Books from a Vancouver Collection (lots 42-45) Starting Price: $150
Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909) CALLIGRAPHY ALBUM, Cloth board accordion album with ten pages of calligraphy, last page signed and sealed, Each image 8.9" x 6.3" — 22.6 x 16 cm. Provenance: Chinese Scroll Paintings from the Estate of KC Tai, Part III (lots 257-269) Born in 1917 in Guandong, the late Kwok-Choi Tai took after his father, a venerated scholar from the late Qing Dynasty, and the third ranked official in Guangzhou province. Mr. Tai graduated from Sun Yatsen University during WWII and majored in Chinese literature and psychology, and taught at the College of Education for the Hong Kong government until he retired in the early 1980’s. The majority of the paintings from his collection was acquired from the 1950’s to 1980’s and features the works if the South Chinese Lingnan School. Previous parts of this collection were sold at Waddington’s in June and December of 2012. Starting Price: $1250
Middle Eastern Manuscripts, Five Volumes: Risalah fi Fann al-Munazarah [Epistle on the Art of Debating]. [?Damascus, 15th Century], ten glossy laid paper leaves, small quarto format, text in black ink with some red, approximately nineteen lines per page; later inscriptions in purple ink, some side notes slightly trimmed in later marbled paper wrappers, 8 x 5 3/4 in. [Dalail al-Khayyirat, Guide to Good Deeds, Prayers, Poetry], manuscript on paper in Arabic, Ottoman Turkey, with gilt and colored illuminations of Mecca and Medina, and embellishments,18th century, rebound in later red goatskin, stamped in gold, with flap, first leaf mounted, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. Dervis Ahmet Manuscript by Mehmet, Arabic manuscript on paper, six leaves, early 18th century, attributed to the court calligrapher to Sultan Ahmet III, in gilt morocco binding; some leaves with holes repaired, some leaves mounted, all guarded, resewn, 6 1/4 x 4 in. Arabic calligraphy, approximately thirty-three leaves removed from various Arabic manuscripts from 16th to 19th centuries, condition and sizes vary. Burmese Parabaik, astrological or tattoo manuscript, 20th century, single sheet accordion-style text block with lightweight blackened wood covers carved with an image of a man on one side and a cat on the other, twelve openings accessible from both sides, with polychrome images throughout, images and text in pen and ink, enhanced with crayon and colored pencil throughout, depicting mainly tigers and humans; outer covers 8 3/4 x 4 3/4 in., the sheet measuring 9 3/4 feet when the accordion is fully extended; text leaves with minor smudging throughout. (5).
Three pieces of Austrian Anzengruber pottery, circa 1930, the characters brightly glazed, comprising a pair of bookends modelled as seated elderly man and woman, 20cm high, and a group of two men, one playing the accordion and the other singing, 20cm high, impressed factory marks to bases (at fault) (3)
A GROUP OF FIVE RUSSIAN LACQUERWARE ITEMS, 19TH CENTURY. Comprising a rectangular cigarette case with rounded edges painted with a scene of the St. Basil`s on luster ground; a matchbox holder painted with two peasants in a courting scene; a rectangular coin purse with rounded edges painted with a scene of figures at a well, the interior with blue fabric accordion divider; a lacquered napkin ring of ovoid form painted with a scene of two women on luster ground; and a round lidded pill box painted with a winter troika scene with red lacquered interior. Greatest length 3.1 inches (8 cm).

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