Japanese Works of Art - 7th December 2020
Lot 276
TWO JAPANESE PAINTINGS
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £380
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Description
TWO JAPANESE PAINTINGS
MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
Both half-length portraits of beauties, the first holding an uchiwa fan painted with bamboo, wearing robes with geometrical designs including asa-no-ha and a chrysanthemum-shaped ornament in her hair, the other holding a scroll and a brush, her kimono richly decorated with sakura flowers, in modern frames and glazed, both approx. 29cm x 19cm. (2)
Similar portraits were displayed at the Japanese Pavilion of the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.