Hanging scroll "Playful mice" · Zeshin, Shibata (1807-1891), Edo / Tokyo, Japan · ID: 3046485
sold
EUR 550
Provenance
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, SwedenSize
M: 96,5 cm x 27 cm / M: 18 cm x 16 cm
M: 38.0 inch x 10.6 inch / M: 7.1 inch x 6.3 inch
Description
ink and gouache/silk, paper backing, silk brocade, signed and stamped, original storage box “tomobako” (l: 33,5 cm, b/h: 6,5 cm), tear, brocade slightly bleached
Zeshin was a Japanese lacquer, painter and print artist of the late Edo period and early Meiji era. He has been called “Japan’s greatest lacquerer”, but his reputation as painter and print artist is more complex.
The object Hanging scroll “Playful mice” with the object ID 3046485 was part of the auction 94th Tribal Art Auction on March 7, 2020. The object with the lot number 10 achieved a sales price of EUR 550 with an asking price of EUR 300.
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