Sworders: Asian Art, A1178, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 08, 2024 - November 08, 2024
Page Size: 35 items in 2 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
225 Indian School

Indian School. 19th century, comprising six court and hunting scenes

19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
226

A pair of Mughal portraits

19th century GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
228

Three Mughal miniatures. 19th century, depicting an emperor and empress riding elephants

19th century GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 104.00
229 Mughal School

Mughal School. 19th century, depicting a bejewelled royal figure with a radiating gold halo behind

19th century GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,235.00
238 Persian School

Persian School. 19th century, of a court scene between four arranged columns of calligraphy

19th century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 260.00
286 Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769-1825)

seven Japanese woodblock prints of Kabuki actors, signed Toyokuni ga

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 156.00
287 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865)

five woodblock prints of Kabuki actors, signed Gototei Kunisada ga

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
288 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865)

Chushingura Youchi Zu (Night Attack of the Loyal Retainers)

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 156.00
289 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865)

19th century, of 'Nenohi matsu futaba no ei' (Prosperity of the Two Leaf Pine on the Day of the Rat), an oban triptych of woodblock prints

19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
290 Utagawa Sadahide (Japanese, c.1807-1879)

a triptych of the Procession of Minamoto no Yoritomo across the Oi River

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 104.00
291 Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835-1900)

two oban woodblock prints from a triptych, depicting kabuki actors from the play Kotobuki Soga

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 104.00
292 Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835-1900)

two woodblock prints from the series 'Chimei Juni ka Getsu no Uchi' (Twelve Months of Geographical Names)

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 117.00
293 after Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (1786-1865) and Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)

A group of four Japanese woodblock prints

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 117.00
294

A Japanese painting, of a girl wearing a kimono, standing in front of a clothes rack,

19th century GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 104.00
295

A collection of five Japanese woodblock prints

19th century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
296

A collection of four Japanese woodblock prints

Meiji period (1868-1912) GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
297 Takahashi Shotei (Japanese, 1871-1945)

Nikko Sugi Namiki (Cryptomeria Road in Nikko)

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 312.00
298 Takahashi Shotei (Japanese, 1871-1945)

Yotsuya, Okido (The Big Gate at Yotsuya)

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 286.00
299 Takahashi Shotei (Japanese, 1871-1945)

Insect seller on a summer evening

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 286.00
300

A Japanese hanging scroll. 19th-20th century, of a literatus standing in front of a blossoming prunus tree,

19th-20th century GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
301

A Japanese hanging scroll. 19th-20th century, of Kanzan and Jittoku with a bird flying above,

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
302 Tomikichiro Tokuriki (Japanese, 1902-2000)

Miyajima Yukei (Evening Scene at Miyajima)

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
303 Kawase Hasui (Japanese, 1883-1957)

Hoodo no bosetsu (Evening snow at the Phoenix Hall [Byodoin Temple])

1951 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 520.00
306 Tomikichiro Tokuriki (Japanese, 1902-2000)

Kyoraku Sanjudai (Thirty Kyoto Scenes)

1936 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
307

A collection of Japanese woodblock prints

19th-20th century GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 39.00
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