Japanese Works of Art - 17th May 2022
Lot 150
ANONYMOUS
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £80
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Description
ANONYMOUS, KANO SCHOOL
EDO PERIOD, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY
A Japanese painting in ink and colour on paper depicting a farmer in a bamboo grove, the man using an adze to dig out bamboo shoots while snow falls around him, together with an ink painting of a monk holding a broom, possibly Jittoku, both framed and glazed, 50cm x 35cm max. (2)
Provenance: from the Milne Henderson collection of Japanese art.
The larger painting may be a depiction of Moso, one of the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety often represented digging for bamboo shoots to feed his sick mother.
PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.