Unknown: Still life
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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.

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