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THE MISUMI COLLECTION Important Works of Lacquer Art and Paintings: Part II Tuesday 10 November 2015 THE MISUMI COLLECTION Important Works of Lacquer Art and Paintings: Part II Tuesday 10 November 2015 THE MISUMI COLLECTION Important Works of Lacquer Art and Paintings: Part II Tuesday 10 November 2015 at 1pm 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES Please see page 2 for bidder Saturday 7 November 11am - 5pm Specialist, Head of Department Monday to Friday 8.30 to 6.00 information including after-sale Sunday 8 November 11am - 5pm Suzannah Yip +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 collection and shipment Monday 9 November 9am - 7.30pm +44 (0) 20 7468 8368 [email protected] Please see page 4 for bidder For the sole purpose of providing SALE NUMBER: information including after-sale estimates in three currencies in the catalogue the conversion 23268 Cataloguer collection and shipment Yoko Chino has been made at the exchange rate of approx. 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Valuations, taxation and Payment at time of collection rate on buyer’s premium heritage By credit card / debit card For further VAT information +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 W These lots will be removed to please contact: +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax Cites Regulations Bonhams Park Royal after the [email protected] [email protected] Please be aware that all Lots sale. Please read the sale marked with the symbol Y are information page for more Catalogue subscriptions subject to CITES requlations details. To obtain any Bonhams when exporting these items catalogue or outside the EU. The regulations AR These lots are subject to the to take out an annual may be found at www.ukcites. Artists Resale Right levy. Please subscription: gov.uk or may be requested refer to the information in Subscriptions Department from: section 7 of the Notice to +44 (0) 1666 502200 Bidders at the back of the +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax UK CITES Management catalogue. [email protected] Authority Zone 117 Shipping Temple Quay House For information and estimates 2 The Square on domestic and international Temple Quay shipping as well as export BRISTOL BS1 6EB licenses please contact Bonhams Shipping Department on: +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax [email protected] 4 | BONHAMS FOREWORD FROM THE COLLECTOR In my Foreword to last year’s catalogue of Part 1 of the Misumi Collection, It is evident from Zeshin’s surviving works just how interested he was in I had something to say about my private theories on the subject of subori, chōkoku and how much he enjoyed carving. Subori, one of his distinctive a carving technique used by Shibata Zeshin. Since then my discussions techniques, is very rarely seen in other lacquer ware, not least perhaps with other diligent students of Zeshin, as well as respected scholars and because the right kind of chisel would not be found among a traditional lacquer artists, have led me to the conclusion that Zeshin’s use of carving maki-e artist’s tools. It seems clear that two of the underlying causes as an expressive medium took two distinct forms: one of them carving in behind Zeshin’s eventual adoption of subori as a means of artistic three dimensions, or chōkoku, and the other flat carving, or subori. expression were both the early influence of his father, a professional woodcarver for temples and shrines, and his own close relations with Subori is a method of using a knife to cut into the surface membrane specialist craftsmen who used carving to decorate metal sword-fittings. of hardened lacquer. There are examples of its use before Zeshin’s However, we still have to ask ourselves what deeper impulses might have time and even in his lifetime it was not known as subori; the term, persuaded him to turn to carving. At the very last stage of the lengthy, which literally means ‘plain carving’, emerged later in order to make a inescapable process of applying and polishing multiple layers of lacquer, distinction between this technique and chinkinbori, in which a design he undertook the supremely difficult task—allowing absolutely no margin is cut into the lacquered surface, wet lacquer is applied to the incised for error—of applying a blade to the hardened membrane. Perhaps he lines, and then gold leaf is pressed into them. In subori, by contrast, needed to turn to this impromptu, powerful mode of expression as a kind the marks of the knife are left just as they are. of ceremonial way of breathing life into his artistic creations. Zeshin’s chōkoku, or ‘sculpture’, includes integral three-dimensional relief Like Zeshin, I too adore subori and have become a total slave to his use carving or separately carved pieces applied to a surface; the term might of the technique. When he carved his signature in katakiri-bori he could typically refer to a wood netsuke to which lacquer is applied after it has make it look exactly as though it had been drawn with a brush, with been carved. Examples of this kind of work in Zeshin’s oeuvre include a the same variation of thick and thin lines, even though carving requires wooden suzuri (ink stone) carved in the form of a branch of plum, inside the order of the individual strokes to be completely different from that a Writing Box with Autumn Grasses from my own collection (Nezu 2012, used when working in ink on paper.
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