SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-91)

SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-91)
URUSHI-E (LACQUER PAINTING)
EDO/MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY

A Japanese painting, ink, coloured lacquer and gold leaf on paper, mounted as an album leaf; depicting two fans, one decorated with a large red lobster, the other with white chrysanthemum by a bamboo fence; signed Zeshin and sealed Shin lower right corner, 19.3cm x 16cm, 25.7cm x 21cm overall; together with another urushi-e, ink, mother of pearl, coloured lacquer and gold leaf on paper, painted with an oni wearing monk's robes, looking pensively at a large dish and a sake bottle before him, together with fragments of a signature with a Shin seal, framed and glazed, 36cm x 41cm. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of Richard Barker (1950-2023), Chinese and Japanese Art specialist at Spink and Sons, Barry Davies Oriental Art and later Richard Barker Fine Art Ltd.

WITHOUT RESERVE