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Lot 611
A pair of opera glasses, cast with leaping stags, soft cloth pouch; a silver caddy spoon, the terminal embossed with a rose, Birmingham 1961; a Cucciolo piano accordion; a Royal Winton chintz sugar bowl; Ronson and other cigarette lighters; a Denby tobacco jar, cover and metal frog; a Russian lacquer snuff box; a Homepride advertising box; a Charlie Chaplin money box; a set of six 1960s Moon Landing coasters; etc
Lot 281
IKEDA TAISHIN: A SUPERB ALBUM OF FOURTEEN URUSHI-E (LACQUER) PAINTINGSBy Ikeda Taishin (1825-1923), each sealed Taishin or KomaJapan, late 19th century, Meiji period (1868-1912)The fourteen paintings mounted as an accordion album on gold paper with silk brocade cover and back, superbly painted with lacquer on paper, with subtle use of ink and watercolors, to depict various subjects: a gushing waterfall, cleverly indicated with subtle linework and negative space, the craggy rockwork finely painted with hues ranging from ochre-brown to gray-black; two reishi mushrooms growing from craggy and grassy rockwork, the fungi appealingly variegating in color from a deep dark-brown to a pale gray; a blossoming prunus tree, with only a part of the trunk and few branches and blossoms visible; a shoreside mountain landscape lined with trees above a path with three figures walking along it; two pine saplings with brown-lacquered trunks and dark leaves; a spray of bamboo leaves as well as three bamboo stalks, which are mostly off-image and lacquered a lustrous brownish-black; a particularly lustrous black-lacquered nazume (eggplant) and kaki (persimmon); a cluster of lotus leaves, zuiki (leaf stalks of hasuimo or lotus yam) and chrysanthemum, clearly painted in the form of a stylized crab with prominent pincers; a magpie in flight amid thickly grown pines, with the use of silver and dark-brown lacquers creating a striking contrast; two small gourds borne on wispy vines with large leaves, the veins finely painted in black lacquer; another prunus tree with thin branches and vines bearing neatly veined leaves and lavender-pink blossoms and bud; a garden with yellow chrysanthemums, bamboo, and dark weeds; a flock of plovers flying low above crashing waves with boldly painted sea foam; and blossoming camellia with finely veined brown leaves borne on a young branch, the trunk mostly off-image.Each leaf is signed KOMA or TAISHIN to the lower right corner.Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear and minimal soiling.Provenance: Ex-collection Donald Mendelsohn. Christie’s, 11 December 1985, New York, lot 33. Sotheby’s, Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works Of Art Including Chinese And Japanese Art From The Collection Of Frieda And Milton Rosenthal, 16 September 2008, New York, lot 298. A private collector in New York, USA, acquired from the above.SIZE 19.1 x 16.8 cm (each leaf) and 25.2 x 22 cm (the album)Ikeda Taishin (1825-1903) was the leading pupil of Shibata Zeshin who worked in the Meiji period. He was born in Edo and became Zeshin’s first lacquer apprentice in 1835 at the age of eleven. He became an independent artist around 1870, approximately 35 years later. Together with Kawanobe Itcho (Genjiro; 1830-1910), Taishin was appointed an Artist to the Imperial Household (Teishitsu gigeiin) in 1896. His pupils included Umezawa Ryushin, a member of the Art committee of the Imperial Fine Arts Academy and the Imperial Household.Auction comparison:A closely related album by Shibata Zeshin and his pupils of smaller size and with only twelve leaves, some sealed Koma, was sold at Christie’s, An Inquiring Mind: American Collecting of Japanese and Korean Art, 15 April 2016, New York, lot 51 (sold for 47,500 USD).
Lot 340A
A Zero Sette Castlefidardo electric accordion,complete with a fitted case, a cased foot pedal and a Roland Spirit Bass 50 (3) Condition ReportThe accordion has been working but we cannot guarantee this will continue to be the case due to the nature of the item. It does not appear to have seen much use. The electrics have not been tested.PAT test pass 24.8.22
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