Chinese & Japanese Arts, 16th-20th Centuries Paintings & Books - Silent auction (Part 2)

Chinese & Japanese Arts, 16th-20th Centuries Paintings & Books - Silent auction (Part 2)

Saturday, October 10th, 1-3pm.

Asian arts rarities – Chinese & Japanese paintings on scrolls, hand-scrolls, rare art books, woodblock prints, and ceramics – from an old Laurelhurst estate that have been in storage for decades. Stay tuned: In the coming weeks we will hold sales of the estate's large collections of 78 RPM & Cylinder records, 19th Century operatic scores, and music scholarship texts - All fresh from storage since 2010.

Lot preview & silent bidding begin at 1pm. Walk-around lot closings begin at 2pm.

Some highlights include -

- DONGCUN ZHOU CHEN, (Ming) Chinese, on silk. ca. 1510. Landscape with waterfall.

- SHIBA KŌKAN (1747-1818), ca. 1800. Empress Jingū and Takenouchi no Sukune. With box.

- TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) - The Boy Samurai: Gyokuensai, 1889.

- UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI - Snow Cat: Amusements of the First Snowfall. Complete triptych, 1847-50.

- Forty Seven Ronin. (1893-1894, with fold-out battle scene).

- HOKUSAI, WATANABE KAZAN, BUNCHO, CHINZAN, et. al. (1836). Nikko San Shi (National shrine park) (5 vols., complete). Only known private copy.

- Elaborate handscroll, TOSA SCHOOL, ca. 1775, Edo period. Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter).

- The Mustard Seed Garden (1850). Early Japanese edition of Chinese publication (1679-1818). (4 vols, 21 books, complete, vol 2 having 2 parts).

- Plus, box-lots of rare art books.

- All with low starting (minimum bid) prices.

See our lot list and detailed photos below to get a good sense of the scope and quality of the items available. Most of these items were purchased by the estate owner back in the 1950s-1970s. Many have not seen the light of day - literally - for at least a generation.

A LOW-STRESS "Silent" AUCTION

This is a walk-around silent auction bid sale. "Low-stress": meaning that during the walk-around closing of the auction, interested buyers have opportunity to add to their bid -- this eliminates any rushing or athleticism in the sale. Items will have - LOW starting bids. NO reserve. NO buyer's premium. NO sales tax.

Limited parking in our small cul-de-sac, but more parking a block away off Stevens Way.

ABOUT THE "Silent" AUCTION PROCESS

As you enter, you will receive your bidder number. Each lot will have a bright yellow bid sheet nearby with a brief description and minimum starting bid price.

BIDDING

To place a bid, write your bidder number and dollar bid amount on the next available line on the bid sheet. Whole dollars only. The item goes to the highest bidder present at closing. There are no reserve prices.

AUCTION CLOSING begins at 2pm

The staff will make announcements giving everyone plenty of warning as closing time for each item approaches.

If there are items you are particularly interested in and want to make certain you get in your best bid, stand near that item's bid sheet and the auction closer will give you and other interested bidders opportunity for further bids.

You must be present to win your bid, otherwise, the next highest bidder present is awarded the item.

PAYMENT

Cash, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, PayPal and Venmo. Please bring photo ID.

AS-IS

All items are sold AS-IS, AS-FOUND. Many items have been in storage for decades. All sales are final.

Lot Descriptions (photos will be posted soon / “MB” == Minimum Bid)

--- HANGING SCROLL PAINTINGS ---

● LOT 300: SUIKO, Japanese, Black Fudō Myōō (Acala), ca. 1830, late Edo period. (MB $30)

● LOT 301: KAWABATA GYOKUSHŌ (1842-1913), Meiji Period, ca. 1900. Kingfisher on a Branch. Two artist seals, with box. (MB $50)

● LOT 302: After UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI, Woman and Child on stilt shoes, ca. 1860. Ukiyo-e. (MB $30)

● LOT 303: After HISHIKAWA MORONOBU (c. 1618–1694), ca. 1860. Young Samurai Warrior bearing Hishikawa seal on Horseback. With box. (MB $50)

● LOT 304: SHIBA KŌKAN (1747-1818), ca. 1800. Empress Jingū and Takenouchi no Sukune. With box. (MB $100)

● LOT 305: DONGCUN ZHOU CHEN, (Ming) Chinese, on silk. ca. 1510. Landscape with waterfall and figures. Signed Dongcun Zhou Chen. (MB $1500)

● LOT 306: SŌ SHISEKI SCHOOL, ca. 1770. Mynah Bird with Insect. Signed “Sō Shiseki” and bearing two seals, with box. (MB $100)

● LOT 307: KANCHŪ CHŪTAI (d. 1406), Zen Master and Ninth Abbot of Shōkoku-ji. Chinso portrait, ink and gold on silk, ca. 1800. With box. (MB $10)

● LOT 308: TOTOKI BAIGAI (1749-1804), ca. 1790, Nanga School. Hsi-Wang-Mu, Queen Mother of the West. Two seals, and box. Provenance: Dawson's, 1966. (MB $50)

● LOT 309: Woman and Child at a Tea House. ca. 1800. Ukiyo-e painting including a self-referencing ukiyo-e wall scroll in the scene. (MB $40)

● LOT 310: Lion and Deer - Rubbing from a carved relief. ca. 1900. (MB $10)

● LOT 311: MASAKATSU UEDA (b. 1925) two monotype abstracts, with seal. Purchased ca. 1970 from the artist. (MB $20)

--- CERAMICS and PORCELAINS ---

● LOT 320: Truncated square dish, River and mountain landscape. 11"w. Arita ca. 1800-1830. (MB $20)

● LOT 321: Side-bevelled, round bowl. 7"w x 3"h. Arita ca. 1850-1880. (MB $20)

● LOT 322: Round polychrome bowl. 8.25"w x 3.25"h. Imari/Arita ca. 1820-1860. (MB $30)

● LOT 323: Octagonal dish, Bird in tree. 7"w. Arita ca. 1820-1860. (MB $20)

● LOT 324: Scalloped bowl, stem, footed. River scene. 6.25"w x 5"h. Arita ca. 1800-1850. (MB $20)

● LOT 325: Round scalloped bowl, hexagon designs, 6.25"w x 1.75"h. Arita ca. 1800-1850. (MB $10)

● LOT 326: Round bowl, birds and mountain landscape. 8.5w" x 3"h. Arita ca. 1820-1860. (MB $20)

--- WOODBLOCK PRINTS ---

● LOT 330: Lot of 7 prints. Various artists: Yoshu CHIKANOBU (1838-1912), Raisai TOSHIMOTO. Maebara Ikkaku, 1877 warrior. (MB $10)

● LOT 331: TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) - Pair of prints: The Boy Samurai: Gyokuensai, 1889; “The Full Moon, Coming with a Challenge to Flaunt Its Beautiful Brow”: Fukami Jikyu, 1887. (MB $50)

● LOT 332: UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE II - Great Waterfall at Mount Nachi. From Shokoku Meisho Hyakkei, 1859. Approx. 7 1/2 x 10 in. [Not (Ando) Hiroshige I as labelled] (MB $50)

● LOT 333: UTAGAWA KUNITERU II - "Tokyo Mitsui-gumi House - True Picture of the Five-story Building at Kaiganbashi." 1873 (Meiji 6), complete 3-sheet oban triptych. (MB $30)

● LOT 334: UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI I (1769-1825). Kabuki Actors: depicting Iwai Matsunosuke and another female-role actor. Edo period. (MB $20)

● LOT 335: UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE - Niwaka Festival in New Yoshiwara. Shin Yoshiwara Niwaka no zu, ca.1840-42. Early Hiroshige design. (MB $40)

● LOT 336: URAKUSAI (YURAKUSAI) NAGAHIDE - Two prints belonging to the Gion Festival costume-parade / nerimono tradition. Pair. (MB $10)

● LOT 337: UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861), Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danzaburo, in dramatic role. (MB $15)

● LOT 338: UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI - Enma. Takahashi Kambō defending himself against a swarm of attackers: Ehon Gappo-ga-Tsuji. Complete triptych, ca. 1825. (MB $75)

● LOT 339: UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861) - Actor print (yakusha-e), featuring Ichikawa Danzaburo. Edo period. (MB $20)

● LOT 340: After KITAGAWA UTAMARO - Wakatsuru of the Wakamatsuya. Approx. 8 3/4 x 13 in. (MB $10)

● LOT 341: UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI - Snow Cat: Amusements of the First Snowfall. Complete triptych, 1847-50. (MB $100)

● LOT 342: UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE - Woman with Flowers / Landscape. ca. 1840s. (MB $30)

● LOT 343: UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858), Hiratsuka: Nawate Road, from Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, ca. 1833–34 - Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1960s date attribution. (MB $30)

● LOT 344: UTAGAWA YOSHITORA - Nihonbashi / Eight Views of the Eastern Capital. Features pseudo-Western lettering, Mt. Fuji, Westerners in an omnibus. 1871. (MB $30)

● LOT 345: BAIDO KUNIMASA - Edobashi. Tokyo Meisho Han'ei no Uchi: Edobashi no Zu, ca. 1875. Meiji-period Tokyo view. (MB $25)

--- BOOKS, by the box ---

● LOT AA: Asian Arts (MB $10)

● LOT BB: Asian Arts / Small books (MB $10)

● LOT CC: Asian Arts (MB $10)

● LOT DD: Asian Arts (MB $10)

● LOT EE: Asian Arts (MB $10)

● LOT FF: Asian Arts (MB $10)

● LOT GG: Asian Arts (MB $10)

● LOT HH: General Arts (MB $10)

--- BOOKS, individual ---

● LOT 350: Barrett, T. (1979, Ltd. ed.). Nagashizuki: The Japanese craft of hand papermaking. Bird & Bull Press. (MB $20)

● LOT 351: Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric through Ch'ien Lung Period. (1952). Los Angeles County Museum exhibition catalog. (MB $20)

● LOT 352: Forty Seven Ronin. (1893-1894, with fold-out battle scene). Rebound. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd, Yokohama. (MB $100)

● LOT 353: Marquet de Vasselot, J. J., & Ballot, M. J. (1922). La Ceramique Chinoise. Morance. Louvre, Paris. (MB $25)

● LOT 354: HOKUSAI, WATANABE KAZAN, BUNCHO, CHINZAN, et. al. (1836). Nikko San Shi (National shrine park) (5 vols., complete). Listed in both Brown and Hillier. Only known private copy. Bonus book: 1935 Nikko travelogue. (MB $350)

● LOT 355: Elaborate handscroll, TOSA SCHOOL, ca. 1775, Edo period. Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter). Illustrated handscroll - Five narrative paintings with gold and metalic highlights from the tale of Kaguya-hime, with kana calligraphy on richly decorated paper. (MB $500)

● LOT 356: The Mustard Seed Garden (1850). Early Japanese edition of Chinese publication (1679-1818). (4 vols, 21 books, complete, vol 2 having 2 parts). Only other known copies in this form in Japanese Museums and the Library of Congress. (MB $350)

● LOT 357: Ikebana studies. (n.d.). 9 possible surimono prints; accordion fold book. Collectors stamp. (MB $35)

● LOT 358: Tsubouchi, S. (1920). Kabuki play posters. Shibaie to Toyokuni oyobi sono monka. (MB $20)

● LOT 359: (n.d.) 7 stab-book set of illustrated stories with color features. (MB $20)

● LOT 360: Revilliod de Muralt, A. (1901). Catalogue de la collection de porcelaines anciennes. Rebound. Geneva. (MB $30)

● LOT 361: Shibui, K. (1952, Ltd. ed.). Utamaro. Mainly erotic prints. Asoka Shobo. (MB $20)

● LOT 362: Ajioka, C., Kuwahara, N., Nishiyama, J. (2000). Hanga: Japanese creative prints. Art Gallery of New South Wales. (MB $15)

● LOT 363: Brown, L. N. (1924). Block printing & book illustration in Japan. George Routledge & Sons/E. P. Dutton. (MB $10)

● LOT 364: Gookin, F. W. (1913, Ltd. ed.). Japanese colour prints and their designers. The Japan Society. (MB $20)

● LOT 365: Goncourt, E. de. (1896, 1st ed.). Hokusai. Paris. (MB $20)

● LOT 366: American Art Galleries. (1919). Catalogue [with handwritten realized prices] of the collection of Rufus E. Moore. Rebound. American Art Galleries. New York. (MB $20)

● LOT 367: Takahashi, S. (1961, Ltd. ed.). The Japanese wood-block prints through two hundred and fifty years. Chuo-Koron Bijutsu Shuppan. (MB $20)

● LOT 368: American Art Association. (1927). Auction catalog. Chinese and Korean potteries & porcelains, collection of the late Desmond FitzGerald. Rebound. (MB $15)

● LOT 369: Seckel, D. (1959, Ltd. Ed.). Emakimono: The Art of the Japanese Painted Hand-scroll. Pantheon Books. (MB $15)

● LOT 370: Azechi, U. (1963). Japanese woodblock prints: Their Techniques and Appreciation. Toto Shuppan Company Ltd./Japan Publications Trading Co. (MB $15)

● LOT 371: Chibbett, D. (1977, 1st ed.). History of Japanese printing and book illustration. Kodansha International. (MB $10)

● LOT 372: Mizawa Taku. (1939-1940). Early print catalog. (MB $15)

● LOT 373: Paper Shop and Their Advertising Illustrations (1906, Ltd. ed.). Sample of Edo & Meiji ad paper (2 vols., complete). Tokyo. (MB $20)

● LOT 374: Hokusai, K. (1829). The Immortals, Hokusai Manga. (MB $25)

● LOT 375: Merritt, H. (1990, 1st ed.). Modern Japanese woodblock prints: The early years. University of Hawaii Press. (MB $10)