Fine Asian Works of Art Asian Decorative Art San Francisco | June 25 and 26, 2019 Fine Asian Works of Art San Francisco | Tuesday June 25, 2019 at 10am Asian Decorative Works of Art San Francisco | Tuesday June 25, 2019 at 3pm, Lots 301 - 397 San Francisco | Wednesday June 26, 2019 at 10am, Lots 398 - 923 BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES New York 220 San Bruno Avenue +1 (800) 223 2854 San Francisco Bruce Maclaren, Senior Specialist San Francisco +1 (415) 861 8951 fax Dessa Goddard, US Head, Chinese Art bonhams.com Asian Works of Art, Director +1 (917) 206 1677 To bid via the internet please visit +1 (415) 503 3333 [email protected] PREVIEW www.bonhams.com/25518 [email protected] Friday June 21, 10am to 5pm Ming Hua, Junior Specialist Saturday June 22, 10am to 5pm www.bonhams.com/25519 Henry Kleinhenz, Consultant +1 (646) 837 8132 Sunday June 23, 10am to 5pm Please note that telephone bids +1 (415) 503 3336 [email protected] Monday June 24, 10am to 5pm must be submitted no later than 4pm on the day prior to [email protected] Harold Yeo, Consultant the auction. 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Leslie Wright Vice President - Trusts and Estates Brooke Sivo, Catherine Williamson Jon King Vice President - Business Development International Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art team Global Asaph Hyman Global Head, Chinese Art Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman Dessa Goddard US Head, Asian Art Asia Europe Xibo Wang Hong Kong Gigi Yu Hong Kong Keason Tang Hong Kong Benedetta Mottino London, New Bond Street Sing Yan Choy London, New Bond Street Edward Luper London, New Bond Street Rachel Hyman London, Knightsbridge Rosangela Assennato London, Knightsbridge Ben Law Smith London, Knightsbridge Ian Glennie Edinburgh Asha Edwards Edinburgh Aude Louis Carves Paris USA Bruce MacLaren New York Ming Hua New York Harold Yeo New York Henry Kleinhenz San Francisco Daniel Herskee San Francisco Ling Shang San Francisco Amelia Chau San Francisco Dick Lin San Francisco Australia Asia Representatives Rachel Du Los Angeles Yvett Klein Sydney Jessica Zhang Beijing Jenny Tsai Taipei Bernadette Rankine Singapore Order of Sale Chinese Works of Art .................................. 1 – 164 Scholar’s Objects...................................... 1 – 52 Jade and Hardstone Carvings ........................... 53 – 65 Ceramics ........................................... 66 – 97 Snuff bottles ....................................... 98 – 137 Works of Art....................................... 138 – 164 Indian and Himalyan Works of Art....................... 165 – 175 Paintings and Caligraphy ............................. 176 – 221 Asian Decorative Works of Art Lots 301 - 397: Tuesday June 25 at 3pm Lots 398 - 923: Wednesday June 26 at 10am Japanese and Korean Works of Art 301 302 301 UTAGAWA KUNISADA I (TOYOKUNI III, 1786-1864), Konomi ni makase nanajuhassai Toyokuni hitsu; Ono no Komachi, TOYOHARA KUNICHIKA (1835-1900), GOSOTEI HIROSADA Ariwara no Narihira Ason, circa 1858, published by Enshuya Hikobei, (1826-1863), AND NAKAI YOSHITAKI (1841-1899) signed Ichiyosai Toyokuni hitsu; Kesa Gozen, from the series Zenaku Edo period (1615-1868) and Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1854-1893 sanjuroku bijin (36 Good and Evil Beauties), circa 1876, and actor Comprising an oban tate-e triptych, eight oban tate-e, and three Onoe Kikugoro as Misorogi Kokichi, circa 1893, both published by chuban tate-e prints; Actors Iwai Kumesaburo III as Aburaya Okon Fukuda Kumajiro, signed Toyohara Kunichika hitsu; actor Sawamura (inset), Nakayama Ichizo I as Nakai Manno, Nakamura Aizo I (r), Tosho as Sasaki Gennosuke and Nakamura Ganpachi as Hinin no Kataoka Gado II as Fukuoka Mitsugi (c), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Oba Gan, circa 1870, signed Kunichika hitsu; three chuban tate-e prints Omine (inset), and Otani Tokuji II as Aburaya Oshika (l), circa 1855, each signed Hirosada; Actor Otani Tomoemon IV as Miuranosuke, published by Ebisuya Shoshichi; two actors, 1859, published by Ise signed Ichiyotei Yoshitaki hitsu. (14) Yoshi, and an actor sitting with a tabakobon, circa 1854, published 14 1/8 x 9 3/4in (35.7 x 24.7cm) average dimensions by Otaya Takichi, each signed Toyokuni ga; left sheet of a triptych 9 3/4 x 6 11/16in (24.8 x 17cm) average dimenions titled Shimazoroi asahide no sekitori (Wrestlers in Checked Fabrics on New Year Morning), circa 1863, published by Otaya Takichi, signed $800 - 1,200 112 | BONHAMS 303 304 305 306 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE OF HERBERT EVANS AND MIRIAM COLLECTION, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SIMPSON 303 CHARLES W. BARTLETT (1860-1940) 305 302 Negishi KAIHO YUSETSU (1598-1677) UTAGAWA KUNISADA I (TOYOKUNI 1916 Fukurokuju III) (1786-1864), UTAGAWA SADAFUSA Color woodblock print; the lower left with the Edo Period (18th century (1825-1850), UTAGAWA YOSHIMORI artist’s CWB monogram and title cartouche Small hanging scroll, ink on paper; the (1830-1884) NEGISHI.1916, signed in the bottom Chinese immortal walking with his hands Comprising two oban tate-e triptychs margin Charles W. Bartlett in red pencil, the clasped to the front, signed Kaiho Yusetsu, (one set joined), seven oban tate-e prints: publisher’s seal Watanabe Shozaburo on the sealed Kaiho; with a wooden storage box. Kudosaemon Suketsune Bando Mitsugoro lower left margin above a red circular seal 13 1/4 x 6 1/8in (33.6 x 15.5cm) (actor Bando Mitsugoro as Kudosaemon reading SERIES NO. TWO (toned, laid down, Suketsune), circa 1810, censor’s seal framed and glazed). $1,000 - 1,500 kiwame; Sangatsu (Third Month), from the 14 7/8 x 9 7/8in (38 x 25cm) series Go sekku no uchi (Five Festivals), Exhibited circa 1820s, published by Matsumura $600 - 800 Brooklyn Museum, Robert Moes, A Flower Tatsuemon, censor’s seal kiwame, signed for Every Season: Japanese Paintings from Gokitei Sadafusa ga; Saya, from the series PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION the C.D. Carter Collection (The Brooklyn Tokaido meisho fukei (Famous Places along OF HERBERT EVANS AND MIRIAM Museum, 1975), page 34. the Tokaido Road), also known as Gyoretsu SIMPSON Tokaido (Processional Tokaido), circa 1863, Provenance published by Uoya Eikichi, censor’s seal i yon Former C. D. Carter Collection 304 aratame, signed Yoshimori ga. (11) VARIOUS ARTISTS (EDO PERIOD) 15 x 10 3/8in (38.2 x 26.5cm) average 306 dimensions Group of woodblock prints Consisting of twenty-nine single and double UNIDENTIFIED ARTST (EDO PERIOD) color bookplates as well as individual Sparrows and Bamboo $600 - 800 woodblock prints (some trimmed), including Pair of small hanging scrolls, ink on silk; each some early hand-colored book illustrations, depicting sparrows, the right with three birds works by the Katsukawa school (includes a perched on leafy bamboo, the left with a pair few later reproductions), varying condition, of sparrows in mid-flight, each with two seals some laid down. (29) (discoloration of silk, patched, remounted); 13 x 10 1/2in (33 x 26.7cm) dimensions of with a wooden storage box inscribed with largest the name Gengen-o (1628-1673). 6 1/2 x 12 1/8in (16.5 x 31cm) [each] $600 - 800 $1,500 - 2,500 ASIAN DECORATIVE WORKS OF ART | 113 308 307 307 WATANABE SHOTEI (SEITEI) (1851-1918) Mouse and Grapes Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; depicting a small rodent feeding on a cluster of grapes spilling over the sides of a woven basket containing more fruiting grape vines, signed and sealed Shotei; with a wooden storage box.