A Chinese Bronze Helmet
Height: 22.5 cm. (8 7/8 in.)
Width: 20.0 cm. (7 7/8 in.)
Eastern Zhou, Warring States period
5th-3rd century B.C.
Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800), Japanese
“Longmen Carp” 1798
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
103 x 30.5 cm. (40 1/2 x 12 in.)
Inscription:
“Painted by Old Man Beito at age eighty-two.”
Artist’s seals:
To Jokin-in; Jakuchu koji
Published:
Money Hickman and Yasuhiro Sato: The Paintings of Jakuchu (catalogue of an exhibition organized by The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo, The Asia Society, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) New York, 1989, cat. 42; seal appendix p. 200.
Kano Hiroyuki: Jakuchu, Kyoto: Shikosha, 1993, pl. 122, signature and seal appendix p. 337, no. 49.
A Jomon Jar
Height: 45.8 cm. (18 in.)
Diameter: 34 cm (14 3/8 in.)
Japanese Neolithic period
2500-1500 B.C.
Kaisen (1785-1862), Japanese
“Waterfall” 1841
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
175 x 93 cm. (68 7/8 x 36 5/8 in.)
Inscription:
”During late autumn of the year 1841, painted by Kaisen.”
Artists’s seals:
Kyokai and one other
Luo Jianwu (b. 1944), Chinese
“Flying Dragon” 2011
Fan, ink and color on gold-flecked paper
54.7 x 19.1 cm. ( 21 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscription:
“Flying Dragon. Luo Jianwu during the hundredth year of the Minguo era (2011).”
Artist’s seals:
Luo; Jianwu; and one other
Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Black-Lacquer Low Table
Length: 75.5 cm. (29 3/4 in.)
Depth: 42.5 cm. (16 3/4 in.)
Height: 24.1 cm. (9 1/2 in.)
Late Ming-early Qing dynasty
17th-18th century
Nobutada Konoe (1564-1614), Japanese
“Toto Tenjin-zu” (”The God Who Returned from China”)
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
73 x 29.5 cm. (28 3/4 x 11 5/8 in.)
Inscription:
“The God of Kitano
wears an unwoven Chinese robe,
But we recognize him from
the blossoming plum
held within sleeves.”
Cipher-signature of Nobutada
“Orioles and Blossoms in the Wu Garden” 1802
Wang Lin (paintings dated 1787-1819), Chinese
Fan, ink and color on paper
17.5 x 52 cm. (6 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
Inscription:
“Painted after the handscroll ‘Birds and Flowers in the Wu Garden’ by Qiu Shizhou (Qiu Ying) during the third lunar month, spring of the year 1802, by Wang Lin from Baixia (Nanjing).”
Artist’s seal:
Chunpo zhiyin