HARTMAN TRUNK COMPANY FOR SAKS FIFTH AVENUE
Pathfinder" cabin trunk with hanging…

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HARTMAN TRUNK COMPANY FOR SAKS FIFTH AVENUE Pathfinder" cabin trunk with hanging space and storage drawers on a rotating base. The exterior is covered with coated canvas and the hardware is brass. Side opening on one side to a closet, on the other to a succession of ? drawers. Original maker's plates. Original keys. Labels "Cunard White Star" - Steamer "Queen Mary". Serial number 466, circa 1930. H 42 x W 22 x D 23.5 cm

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Estim. 3 000 - 6 000 EUR

OTSUKI YOSHIYASU: A SUPERB AND RARE 18K GOLD FUCHI AND KASHIRA OTSUKI YOSHIYASU: A SUPERB AND RARE 18K GOLD FUCHI AND KASHIRA By Otsuki Yoshiyasu, signed Otsuki Yoshiyasu with kakihan Japan, early to mid-19 th century, Edo period (1615-1868) Each of solid gold with a masterful nanako ground, finely worked in gold takazogan with a dog sitting and reclining with its young, with a single puppy bounding along the verso of the fuchi. Signed OTSUKI YOSHIYASU with the artist’s kakihan (cursive monogram). Testing indicates a minimum purity of 18K. HEIGHT 3.3 cm WEIGHT 46.8 g Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear. Provenance: Collection of Alexander George Mosle (1862-1949). From the private collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, New York, acquired from the above. Alan Hartman (1930-2023) was an influential American art dealer, who took over his parents’ antique business in Manhattan and established the legendary Rare Art Gallery on Madison Avenue, with further locations in Dallas and Palm Beach. His wife Simone (née Horowitz) already served as assistant manager of the New York gallery before the couple were married in 1975, and together they built a renowned collection for over half a century and became noted art patrons, enriching the collections of important museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (which opened the Alan and Simone Hartman Galleries in 2013) as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum in New York. With a fitted wooden tomobako. The artist is listed in the Haynes Index of Japanese Sword Fittings and Associated Artists on p. 2361 (H 12289.0.0). Haynes identifies him as a student of the first Oguri Yoshinao, working in the style of the Hamano school. Museum comparison: It is exceedingly rare to find a fuchi and kashira set made from solid gold. For a tanto showing only solid gold fittings see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 91.2.75.

Estim. 2 000 - 4 000 EUR

KAJIKAWA BUNRYUSAI: A MAGNIFICENT LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO DEPICTING YOSHITSUNE’S JUMP ACROSS EIGHT BOATS AT DAN-NO-URA KAJIKAWA BUNRYUSAI: A MAGNIFICENT LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO DEPICTING YOSHITSUNE’S JUMP ACROSS EIGHT BOATS AT DAN-NO-URA By Kajikawa Bunryusai II or III, signed Kajikawa Bunryusai 梶川丈龍斎 saku 作 Japan, Edo (Tokyo), 19 th century, Edo period (1615-1868) Of square form and oval section, the four-case inro bearing a lustrous roiro ground, masterfully worked in iro-e takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, to depict Yoshitsune executing his legendary "eight boat leap" at Dan-no-ura, during the Battle of Yashima (1185). Yoshitsune is depicted mid-flight, as he glides past a warship with a prow in the form of a geki (a fabulous bird of Chinese origin), arrows flying about. The loyal warrior monk Benkei lifts his hand clasped around a fan towards Yoshitsune from a Minamoto boat, as a samurai plunges headfirst into the water. Signed to the underside KAJIKAWA BUNRYUSAI saku [made by Kajikawa Bunryusai]. The interior compartments of nashiji with gold fundame rims. With a bone ojime carved with a tanuki dueling a rabbit, referencing a scene from the Kachi-kachi Yama folktale when a tanuki challenged a rabbit to a life and death contest to prove who was the better creature. HEIGHT 9.2 cm, LENGTH 9.2 cm Condition: Good condition with minor expected wear, few light scratches, some light nibbling to the edges of the cases. Two small chips with associated touchups to the roiro ground of the top case. Provenance: Ex-collection Alan and Simone Hartman. Alan Hartman was born on 9 January 1930, the son of Hazel and Urban Hartman. Urban Hartman opened a shop dealing in Oriental art on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 1927 and Hartman Rare Art was incorporated in 1945. Alan grew up surrounded by works of art; he purchased his first jade when he was a child – he was 12 – and from that moment until his passing, he continued to acquire antiques and works of art. For a while Alan worked with his brother, Roland, and when they split, he made the decision to run the business on his own. Hence the name Rare Art was to endure, and Alan owned substantial galleries on Madison Avenue in New York and at one point stores in Dallas and Palm Beach. Anyone who visited his New York stores will remember that it was easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer breadth of the stock – including Chinese from Neolithic to the 20th century, Japanese, silver, and jades and hardstones from all over the world. Privately, however, Alan and his second wife, the love of his life, Simone, purchased special pieces for their homes – fine Japanese works of art and objets de vertu, Impressionist paintings, magnificent jades, the best Tang and Ming ceramics, archaic Chinese bronzes, gold boxes, and an important collection of Huguenot silver. Parts of his collection have been donated to the Alan and Simone Hartman Galleries in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Kajikawa Bunryusai I was the third master of the Kajikawa family and worked for the shogunate in the late 17 th century. The name is frequently found on inro and other objects, but it is not recorded how many of the Kajikawa family used it. The presumption is that inro so signed are normally the work of one or more artists active from the mid-18 th to late 19 th century as Bunryusai II and III.

Estim. 1 500 - 3 000 EUR

YAMAGUCHI SHOJOSAI: AN UNUSUAL GOLD-LACQUER THREE-CASE INRO IN THE FORM OF AN OI (MONK’S BACKPACK) YAMAGUCHI SHOJOSAI: AN UNUSUAL GOLD-LACQUER THREE-CASE INRO IN THE FORM OF AN OI (MONK’S BACKPACK) By Yamaguchi Shojosai, signed Shojosai saku 松杖斎作 with kakihan Japan, mid-20 th century, Showa era (1926-1989) In the form of a mountain monk's backpack (oi) raised on four feet, the three-case inro bearing a lustrous gold kinji ground, finely decorated in iro-e hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, as well as hirame gold flakes, to simulate various features of an oi. The front mimicking the backpack’s wooden panel doors worked with a sublime mokume ground (simulated wood grain), locked together in place with a clasp, against the typical twill-plaited bamboo panels, the top and bottom registers decorated with a stylized foliate sprig and diapered geometric ground, this design is continued to the sides, the verso further decorated with two braided ropes which form the carrying straps. Signed to the underside SHOJOSAI saku [made by Shojosai] with the artist’s kakihan in red lacquer. The interior compartments of nashiji with gold fundame edges. With a gold lacquer ojime. HEIGHT 11.3 cm, WIDTH 8.3 cm, DEPTH 4.1 cm Condition: Excellent condition with only very minor wear. Provenance: Ex-collection Alan and Simone Hartman. Alan Hartman was born on 9 January 1930, the son of Hazel and Urban Hartman. Urban Hartman opened a shop dealing in Oriental art on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 1927 and Hartman Rare Art was incorporated in 1945. Alan grew up surrounded by works of art; he purchased his first jade when he was a child – he was 12 – and from that moment until his passing, he continued to acquire antiques and works of art. For a while Alan worked with his brother, Roland, and when they split, he made the decision to run the business on his own. Hence the name Rare Art was to endure, and Alan owned substantial galleries on Madison Avenue in New York and at one point stores in Dallas and Palm Beach. Anyone who visited his New York stores will remember that it was easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer breadth of the stock – including Chinese from Neolithic to the 20th century, Japanese, silver, and jades and hardstones from all over the world. Privately, however, Alan and his second wife, the love of his life, Simone, purchased special pieces for their homes – fine Japanese works of art and objets de vertu, Impressionist paintings, magnificent jades, the best Tang and Ming ceramics, archaic Chinese bronzes, gold boxes, and an important collection of Huguenot silver. Parts of his collection have been donated to the Alan and Simone Hartman Galleries in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. With a wood tomobako inscribed to the cover, ‘Tsuta no hosomichi on-inro’ [inro with the Narrow Ivy Road] in allusion to a chapter in Ise monogatari (The Tales of Ise, tenth century), in which travelers pass through an ivy-covered mountain pass. Yamaguchi Shojosai was born Yamaguchi Shozaburo in Niigata; disabled by polio at an early age, he used crutches throughout his life and borrowed two characters from the Japanese word for crutches, matsubazue, to form his own art name. After a time spent lacquering mass-produced butsudan (household Buddhist altars) he joined the Tobe studio and began to manufacture inro and other maki-e items of superior quality, becoming an independent artist in 1928. He made fine inro both before and after World War II.

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