Sunday, April 21, 2024
LOT #23

Japanese Scroll and Print Assortment

(8) total items including an ink wash on paper scroll depicting a geisha having a wood box, an embroidery on painted silk scroll of a tiger, a single woodblock sheet after calligraphy by Setsuzan Ronin with a playful pup by Settan, matted behind glass in a gold-tone wood frame having a note giving attribution verso, above all retaining Christie’s labels, an unidentified woodblock print of a geisha mounted in a mat; together with (4) fragments of paper fans having printed and hand-painted designs as well as (2) pictorial cut paper silhouettes including a depiction of a spider and its web and a depiction of leaf fronds, of cut paper stabilized using open-work gauze, full sheets uniformly float mounted within mats behind glass in wood frames retaining Christie’s labels verso

Estimate: $400 - $600

Hammer Price: $250

Dimensions: Height: 75 inches, Width: 26 inches (tallest)

Condition: overall moderate to heavy wear, creases, splits, chips and edge wear to scrolls, tiger scroll having numerous small losses to margins and torn away at top, geisha print glued down and having moderate soil, paper fans fragmentary, silhouettes having occasional light edge and surface wear, occasional creases, spider web having two chips to upper edge, frames having light wear, overall moderate to heavy wear, creases, splits, chips and edge wear to scrolls, tiger scroll having numerous small losses to margins and torn away at top, geisha print glued down and having moderate soil, paper fans fragmentary, silhouettes having occasional light edge and surface wear, occasional creases, spider web having two chips to upper edge, frames having light wear

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