Tuesday December 19, 2017 Tuesday San Francisco ASIAN DECORATIVE WORKS OF ART ASIAN DECORATIVE ASIAN DECORATIVE WORKS OF ART | San Francisco | Tuesday December 19, 2017 24266 ASIAN DECORATIVE WORKS OF ART Tuesday December 19, 2017 at 11am San Francisco BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES 220 San Bruno Avenue +1 415 861 7500 San Francisco New York San Francisco, California 94103 +1 415 861 8951 fax Dessa Goddard, Director Jeff Olson, Director bonhams.com [email protected] +1 (415) 503 3333 Japanese Art [email protected] +1 (212) 461 6516 PREVIEW To bid via the internet please visit [email protected] San Francisco www.bonhams.com/24266 Joyce Chu, Business Manager Friday December 15, 2017 +1 (415) 503 3358 Bruce MacLaren, Specialist 10am – 5pm Please note that bids should be [email protected] Chinese Art Saturday December 16, 2017 summited no later than 24hrs +1 (917) 206 1677 10am – 5pm prior to the sale. New Bidders Dick Lin, Head of Sale [email protected] Sunday December 17, 2017 must also provide proof of +1(415) 503 3264 10am – 5pm identity when submitting bids. [email protected] Failure to do this may result in SALE NUMBER: 24266 your bid not being processed. Henry Kleinhenz, Specialist Lots 6001 - 6503 +1 (415) 503 3336 LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS [email protected] CATALOG: $35 AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE Please email Dan Herskee, Specialist ILLUSTRATIONS [email protected] +1 (415) 503 3271 Front cover: Lot 6369 with “Live bidding” in the subject [email protected] Back cover: Lot 6281 line 48hrs before the auction to First session page: Lot 6004 register for this service. Amelia Chau, Consultant Second session page: Lot 6030 Chinese Paintings Third session page: Lot 6426 Bidding by telephone will only be +1 (415) 503 3397 Fourth session page: Lot 6495 accepted on a lot with a lower [email protected] estimate in excess of $1000. Gloria Garaventa, Consultant Please see pages 151 to 154 Japanese Prints and Paintings for bidder information including +1 (415) 503 3397 Conditions of Sale, after-sale [email protected] collection and shipment. Ling Shang, Consultant Asian Works of Art +1 (415) 503 3208 [email protected] Bonhams 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco, California 94103 © 2017, Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp.; All rights reserved. Bond No. 57BSBGL0808 ORDER OF SALE Japanese and Korean Art ..................................6001-6016 Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art ..............6017-6039 Chinese Works of Art .....................................6040-6449 Jade and Hardstone Carvings ............................6040-6141 Snuff Bottles..........................................6142-6174 Ceramics ............................................6175-6346 Early Ceramics .......................................6175-6185 Monochromes ........................................6186-6234 Blue and White Wares ..................................6235-6253 Enameled Wares ......................................6254-6327 Bronze, Cloisonné, and Metalwork .........................6328-6371 Furniture.............................................6372-6383 Chinese Works of Art ..................................6384-6449 Paintings and Calligraphy ..................................6450-6503 JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART Lots 6001-6016 JAPANESE WORKS OF ART 6001 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A GENTLEMAN A PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL GROUP Meiji era 6005 Depicting Ebisu kneeling on a small boat, the deity laughing as he A LARGE SATSUMA EARTHENWARE VASE pulls in a large red sea bream with a slender bamboo fishing pole Meiji era held in his right hand, cast in three sections, the stern of the boat Decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt with a bearded Daoist sealed Shinko/Nobumitsu (some loss of patina). sage riding on cresting waves above a large white-hued dragon 15 1/4in (38.6cm) long and accompanied by numerous Buddhist rakan in an imaginary landscape with pavilions and temple buildings, a pair of smaller $800 - 1,200 dragons encircling the shoulder, portions of the design rendered in high relief, the cartouche on the base with a Shimizu family crest and 6002 inscribed Dai Nihon moto Satsuma-yaki Yoshiyama kore [o] tsukuru (wear to gilt). A LARGE BRONZE SUIBAN WITH HO-O DECORATION 24 3/8in (62cm) high Meiji/Taisho era The low set body rendered in the form of an archaic Chinese bronze basin (pan) and raised on three low feet in the form of scudding $3,000 - 5,000 waves, the exterior walls cast with alternating phoenix motifs set against a scroll-filled ground (solder repairs). PROPERTY FROM THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, 11in (28cm) high PORTLAND, OREGON, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE MUSEUM 23 1/4in (59cm) diameter ACQUISITION FUND $3,000 - 5,000 6006 A GROUP OF SEVEN IMARI PORCELAIN CONTAINERS 6003 Taisho/Showa era A SMALL BRONZE URN Comprising a pair of chrysanthemum flower-shaped dishes with Edo period lobed rims and ribbon patterns converging on a phoenix and Of baluster form supported on a pedestal foot, the neck flanked paulownia blossom roundel; a large bowl with incised ribs to the by stylized dragon handles, cast with four recessed panels each exterior walls; a small deep bowl; a large bowl molded in twelve enclosing depictions of the Four Mythical Creatures (dragon, kirin, lobes; an octagonal bowl with openwork panels; and a small deep phoenix and ‘tortoise’) silhouetted against a bronze patinated ground bowl (wear to enamels). (wear, dent to rim). 12 5/8 to 7 1/4in (32 to 18.5cm) diameters 8 3/8in (21.3cm) high $500 - 750 $1,000 - 1,500 6007 6004 A GROUP OF FOUR CERAMICS A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE URN AND MATCHING STAND 18th century and later Meiji era The first an Arita jar with underglaze blue decoration and later The globular urn with a wide trumpet mouth, cloud-form handles overglaze enamel decoration (losses, altered); the second an Imari and high splayed foot resting on a separately fashioned rectangular style double gourd bottle with raised chrysanthemum flower heads plinth with slightly rounded sides and pierced cloud-form apertures (chipped); the third a camellia leaf green oil dish stamped Bunzan to the short sides, the exterior of each piece molded in low-relief with (chipped, wear); the fourth a Kakiemon style enameled lozenge- numerous cranes flying amid stylized clouds, the celadon-glazed shape dish centered with a fruiting pomegranate branch. motifs reserved on a dark cobalt-blue ground (restorations to rim and 9 5/8in (24.5cm) height of gourd bottle foot). 15in (38cm) height of vase $300 - 500 4 7/8 x 19 7/8 x 15in (12.5 x 50.5 x 38cm) dimensions of stand $1,500 - 2,500 4 | BONHAMS 6001 6002 6003 6004 6005 6006 6007 ASIAN DECORATIVE WORKS OF ART | 5 6008 6010 PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION 6009 A GROUP OF FOUR CERAMICS Comprising a large Imari charger decorated with foliate panels in gilt, underglaze blue and polychrome enamels; a small Kutani saucer with a kinrande design of Chinese sages in a landscape, marked Kutani; a small prunus decorated teabowl bearing the signature Kenzan (repair); and a grey-glazed teabowl of irregular contour (glaze degradation, chip). 18 3/8in (46.8cm) diameter of first $400 - 600 6010 A BAMBOO FLOWER ARRANGING BASKET 20th century Woven in an overlapping diagonal pattern of thick strips of bamboo issuing from a circular base and terminating in a rim band of knotted loops securing a tall loop handle fashioned from a section of grape vine, with a wide insert of lacquered bamboo (wear). 18in (45.7cm) high 6009 $500 - 700 PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER 6011 6008 A GILT WOOD FIGURE OF THE AMIDA BUDDHA A GILT AND IRON-RED ENAMELED CERAMIC TOKKURI Edo period Of elegant silhouette with a matte ivory colored glaze, an iron red ring The deity standing with his hands displaying the Amida mudra, the drawn around the join between the two lobes and a gilt ring painted face and chest applied with flat gold pigment, with an inlaid urna, over the shiny colorless glaze covering the concave base within the all supported on a lotus pedestal raised on an elaborate plinth unglazed foot pad. (restorations, losses). 5 1/4in (13.5cm) high 18 1/8in (46cm) high $1,000 - 1,500 $1,000 - 1,500 6 | BONHAMS 6011 6012 6013 6014 PROPERTY FROM A LADY PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF HERBERT EVANS AND MIRIAM SIMPSON 6012 A WOVEN SILK BUDDHIST PRIEST’S ROBE, KESA 6013 Late Meiji era A LARGE GROUP OF WOODBLOCK PRINT REPRODUCTIONS Sewn from cut patches of light tan ground silk woven with dragons Comprising a facsimile volume of a work by Kitao Masanobu, and cloud scrolls in subdued colors, framed by long border bands, entitled Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami (Yoshiwara with four applied squares at the corners, all of the same brocade Courtesans: A New Mirror Comparing the Calligraphy of Beauties), fabric, the reverse lined with blue silk (wear, color fading). Tokyo: Custom Emaki Image Publishing Society, 1916; together with 72 x 42in (183 x 106.8cm) thirty-three oban size works after Sharaku (10), Utamaro (8), Eiri (3), Choki (2), Kunichika (1), and Hiroshige (10) [includes one fan print, $800 - 1,200 eight in folio Edo kinko hakkei]; and thirteen shikishi format surimono reproductions after Hokusai (5), Hokkei (2), Gakutei (1), Shigenobu (1), Toyohiro (1), Shozo Ittei (1), Oishi Matora (1), and one unsigned (1). [47] 15 1/2 x 10in (39.5 x 45.8cm) dimensions of facsimile volume $800 - 1,200 ASIAN DECORATIVE WORKS OF ART | 7 6015 6016 PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER KOREAN WORKS OF ART 6014 6015 VARIOUS ARTISTS: WOODBLOCK PRINTS A