Chinese & Japanese Albums
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4to album (33 x 26 cm)l; 24 gouaches on pith paper, (each one 30.5 x 20.4 cm) , all mounted on paper and framed with a pale blue silk fabric border; bookplate, 3 plates with small tears ( approx 2 cm length at margins); bound in contemporary patterned decorated silk boards, some pencilling on front pastedown ; overall an attractive copy.
£25,000 -
A set of 10 watercolour and gouache studies on pith paper; one with a long horizontal closed tear. Contemporary red patterned silk binding; upper hinge broken and upper cover detached.
£8,500 -
Title page and 55 of 56 prints (lacking the station Goyu), each sheet in chuban tate-e format (25 x 18.5cm approx.) Contemporary boards, with fuchsia pink decorative endpapers.
£6,500 -
An album of 36 Japanese coloured woodblock prints, oban tate-e (35.5 x 24 cm.) some signed and dated, bound in concertina style with contemporary decorative silk boards; an excellent copy.
£6,500 -
Album (24.5 x 13.5 cm) comprising 70 watercolours on paper, many heightened with gold, with inscriptions in Chinese, modern green calf-backed slipcase.
£25,000