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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2019 | Bonhams | London | Fine Japanese Art | 93 | $****** - ****** | An unusual hinoki rectangular (Japanese cedar) wood bunko (document box) and cover By Kano Tessai (1845-1925) |
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16.5 x 45 x 33 cm (6.5 x 17.72 x 12.99 in)
The exterior of the lid and all four sides boldly carved with 17 ancient gigaku theatre masks, rendered in high relief with details in colour pigments, the interior of the cover similarly decorated with the masks of Daikoku and Ebisu accompanied with their respective attributes, signed on the outside from right to left: Yoshinoyama Zaodo jumotsu bu gi gakumen junanashu kinoe-tora shoshun Nanto Shonami'in nansoka Yuigadokusonan Tessai .., mosu (Yuigadokusoan Tessai .., copied 17 bugaku and gigaku dance masks belonging to the Zao Hall in Yoshino Mountain in spring of the kinoe-tora year [1914] beneath the south window of Shonami'in in Nara) with a kao and seal, signed on the inside of the cover Yuigadokusonan Tessai .., mosu (Yuigadokusonan Tessai .., copied) with a kao, with a wood tomobako storage box inscribed on the outside of the lid Bunko kinoe-tora shoshun Nanto Shonami'in nansoka Yuiga Dokusoanshu Tessai mosu (Tessai, master of Yuigadokuso'an, copied in the spring of the kinoe-tora year [1914], beneath the south window in the Shonami Temple in Nara) with a kao and seal, together with an outer wood storage box
