Unknown Artist – Meiji period
Two vases with flowers and a Chinese Yixing teapot for Sencha. A still life in the Chinese-inspired Nanga or Bunjinga style (literati painting).
Unsigned. Seal: _ sai
Date: 1880s
Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Uchiwa-e, horizontal octagon, 22.2 x 28.8 cm.
Very nice impression and colours. Vertical centrefold as usual, otherwise very good condition. Rare.
Cf. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam No. RP-P-1961-122. Rappard-Boon, The Age of Yoshitoshi. Japanese prints from the Meiji- and Taishô periods. Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 79-81, No. 109.14.
sold