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Auction archive: Lot number 14

SHIBATA ZESHIN 柴田是真 (1807–1891) LACQUERED WOOD PANEL WITH DESIGN OF FARMHOUSE IN THE SNOW AT SANO 雪中佐野(「鉢の木」)図蒔絵額面

Estimate
£300,000 - £500,000
ca. US$384,713 - US$641,188
Price realised:
£375,062
ca. US$480,970
Auction archive: Lot number 14

SHIBATA ZESHIN 柴田是真 (1807–1891) LACQUERED WOOD PANEL WITH DESIGN OF FARMHOUSE IN THE SNOW AT SANO 雪中佐野(「鉢の木」)図蒔絵額面

Estimate
£300,000 - £500,000
ca. US$384,713 - US$641,188
Price realised:
£375,062
ca. US$480,970
Beschreibung:

SHIBATA ZESHIN 柴田是真 (1807–1891) LACQUERED WOOD PANEL WITH DESIGN OF FARMHOUSE IN THE SNOW AT SANO 雪中佐野(「鉢の木」)図蒔絵額面 Meiji era (1868–1912), dated 1883 The roiro-nuri ground decorated in a range of lacquer techniques including extensive silver takamaki-e to depict the snow on the ground and roof, plants, pots, and other details; tetsusabi-nuri for the clay walls; togidashi maki-e for the straw matting and the floor of the tokonoma alcove; the details in gold and silver takamaki-e, gold hirame, and other finishes; the panel depicting a scene based on the Noh play Hachi no ki, with the impoverished former courtier Tsuneyo Genzaemon about to offer hospitality to Lord Hōjō Tokiyori disguised as a wandering monk; Tokiyori kneels at the door of Genzaemon's hut, his hat and oi (priest's carrying frame) hanging on the wall and in the alcove behind him, his horse in a shed outside eating from a wood bucket; farming implements visible behind the horse; a snow-laden pine tree overhead; Genzaemon seen through a window, seated with a juzu (rosary) in his hands; in the foreground, snow-covered miniature plum, cherry, and pine trees on a platform over a pond; the reverse of plain black lacquer over cloth with two vertical struts each with a ring fitting for hanging the panel; signed in gold maki-e characters Gyōnen nanajūnana Koma Zeshin sei 行年七十七 古満是真製 (Made by Koma Zeshin, aged 77) 37.8cm × 61cm (14⅞in × 24in) With fitted wood tomobako inscribed outside Maki-e setchū Sano no zu gakumen 蒔絵 雪中佐野之図 額面 (Panel with maki-e design of Sano in the snow); signed inside Koma Zeshin sei 古満是真製 (made by Koma Zeshin) with seal Nanajūnana-sō 七十七叟 (aged 77); accompanied by an auction slip recording that the panel was sold (in April 1926, see below) for 3,750 yen and that the auction was held by Matsunaga Genkichi 松永源吉, Hokura Hikoichi 保倉彦一, and Hokura Hikohachi 保倉彦八; cloth-bound outer storage box (4) Provenance: Oshiki Collection, Niigata Prefecture 押木家(新潟県)旧藏 Sold in these Rooms, 5 November 2014, lot 14 Exhibited and Published: Shinjōji, Niigata, 1926 Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan (Tokyo National Museum) 2004, cat. no. I-99 Nezu Bijutsukan (Nezu Museum) 2012, cat. no. 53 Fußnoten During the last two decades of his career, Shibata Zeshin produced a number of large-scale lacquer panels, starting with a view of Mount Fuji shown at the 1873 Vienna World Exposition. Clearly intended to emulate the scale and impact of framed Western oils and to establish lacquering as an independent painting medium, these panels are among Zeshin's most unusual and striking works. Most of them depict scenes from Japanese nature, but in 1877 he exhibited a panel featuring a hothouse and bonsai trees (Gōke 1981b, pl. 120) at the first Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai (National Industrial Promotion Exhibition) and the success of this piece, now in the Imperial Collections, might have inspired him to tackle the more ambitious scene depicted here, also based around buildings. The present lot appears to be the only Zeshin panel to feature human figures. Its explicit narrative theme is in strong contrast to traditional Japanese story-telling lacquers, which often make only understated, hard-to-catch, references to the texts on which they are based. Here Zeshin, likely influenced by contemporary Western history painting, adopts an explicit approach and includes virtually all the essential components of a famous Noh play's plot: the two protagonists, the snowy landscape, Tokiyori's horse, and the three plants which Genzaemon sacrifices in order to fulfil his duties as host. In the Noh play Hachi no ki a wandering priest, later identified as the great warlord Hōjō Tokiyori (1227–1263), who has adopted this disguise in order to 'acquaint himself with the needs of his subjects', seeks shelter from Tsuneyo Genzaemon, in reality the dispossessed Lord of Sano and a former retainer of Tokiyori. After some hesitation, Genzaemon's wife persuades her husband to let the priest enter and Genzaemon offers to us

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
7 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

SHIBATA ZESHIN 柴田是真 (1807–1891) LACQUERED WOOD PANEL WITH DESIGN OF FARMHOUSE IN THE SNOW AT SANO 雪中佐野(「鉢の木」)図蒔絵額面 Meiji era (1868–1912), dated 1883 The roiro-nuri ground decorated in a range of lacquer techniques including extensive silver takamaki-e to depict the snow on the ground and roof, plants, pots, and other details; tetsusabi-nuri for the clay walls; togidashi maki-e for the straw matting and the floor of the tokonoma alcove; the details in gold and silver takamaki-e, gold hirame, and other finishes; the panel depicting a scene based on the Noh play Hachi no ki, with the impoverished former courtier Tsuneyo Genzaemon about to offer hospitality to Lord Hōjō Tokiyori disguised as a wandering monk; Tokiyori kneels at the door of Genzaemon's hut, his hat and oi (priest's carrying frame) hanging on the wall and in the alcove behind him, his horse in a shed outside eating from a wood bucket; farming implements visible behind the horse; a snow-laden pine tree overhead; Genzaemon seen through a window, seated with a juzu (rosary) in his hands; in the foreground, snow-covered miniature plum, cherry, and pine trees on a platform over a pond; the reverse of plain black lacquer over cloth with two vertical struts each with a ring fitting for hanging the panel; signed in gold maki-e characters Gyōnen nanajūnana Koma Zeshin sei 行年七十七 古満是真製 (Made by Koma Zeshin, aged 77) 37.8cm × 61cm (14⅞in × 24in) With fitted wood tomobako inscribed outside Maki-e setchū Sano no zu gakumen 蒔絵 雪中佐野之図 額面 (Panel with maki-e design of Sano in the snow); signed inside Koma Zeshin sei 古満是真製 (made by Koma Zeshin) with seal Nanajūnana-sō 七十七叟 (aged 77); accompanied by an auction slip recording that the panel was sold (in April 1926, see below) for 3,750 yen and that the auction was held by Matsunaga Genkichi 松永源吉, Hokura Hikoichi 保倉彦一, and Hokura Hikohachi 保倉彦八; cloth-bound outer storage box (4) Provenance: Oshiki Collection, Niigata Prefecture 押木家(新潟県)旧藏 Sold in these Rooms, 5 November 2014, lot 14 Exhibited and Published: Shinjōji, Niigata, 1926 Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan (Tokyo National Museum) 2004, cat. no. I-99 Nezu Bijutsukan (Nezu Museum) 2012, cat. no. 53 Fußnoten During the last two decades of his career, Shibata Zeshin produced a number of large-scale lacquer panels, starting with a view of Mount Fuji shown at the 1873 Vienna World Exposition. Clearly intended to emulate the scale and impact of framed Western oils and to establish lacquering as an independent painting medium, these panels are among Zeshin's most unusual and striking works. Most of them depict scenes from Japanese nature, but in 1877 he exhibited a panel featuring a hothouse and bonsai trees (Gōke 1981b, pl. 120) at the first Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai (National Industrial Promotion Exhibition) and the success of this piece, now in the Imperial Collections, might have inspired him to tackle the more ambitious scene depicted here, also based around buildings. The present lot appears to be the only Zeshin panel to feature human figures. Its explicit narrative theme is in strong contrast to traditional Japanese story-telling lacquers, which often make only understated, hard-to-catch, references to the texts on which they are based. Here Zeshin, likely influenced by contemporary Western history painting, adopts an explicit approach and includes virtually all the essential components of a famous Noh play's plot: the two protagonists, the snowy landscape, Tokiyori's horse, and the three plants which Genzaemon sacrifices in order to fulfil his duties as host. In the Noh play Hachi no ki a wandering priest, later identified as the great warlord Hōjō Tokiyori (1227–1263), who has adopted this disguise in order to 'acquaint himself with the needs of his subjects', seeks shelter from Tsuneyo Genzaemon, in reality the dispossessed Lord of Sano and a former retainer of Tokiyori. After some hesitation, Genzaemon's wife persuades her husband to let the priest enter and Genzaemon offers to us

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
7 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
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