A JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING

A JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING, KAKEMONO

EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 18TH CENTURY OR LATER

In ink on paper, depicting a nine-storey pagoda amongst clouds, with a stream meandering in the foreground and trees behind, signed in the lower right corner Hanabusa Itcho (1652-1724) and with a red seal, 111cm x 15cm.

Provenance: a private English collection, London and Shetland.

See the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, access. no.F1904.388, for another painting of a multi-storey pagoda signed Hanabusa Itcho, formerly in the collection of Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921).