Carved wooden figure as a two-headed character. Possibly Songye ethnic group, Co…

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Carved wooden figure as a two-headed character. Possibly Songye ethnic group, Congo. 20th century. 60cm high

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Carved wooden figure as a two-headed character. Possibly Songye ethnic group, Congo. 20th century. 60cm high

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Estim. 700 - 1 400 EUR

so-called trumpeter clock, Black Forest around1910/20, richly carved front (similar to cuckoo clock), orig. top, partly old worm infestation, at oak leaf and four antler tips replaced, bezel as a large French horn, horn hands partly carved, numerals in seconds, at the half-hour call a soldier comes out from behind the double doors (right hand with trumpet is missing), while he blows on three tin trumpets of different keys via bellows, skeleton. Brass plate movement according to: G.H.S. (Gordian Hettich & son, Furtwangen), hook gear, drive via two chains and pine cone weights, height approx. 75cm, condition of movement/housing 3

Estim. 600 - 1 200 EUR

TAKAMURA KOUN: A FINE BRONZE FIGURE OF PRINCE SHOTOKU TAKAMURA KOUN: A FINE BRONZE FIGURE OF PRINCE SHOTOKU By Takamura Koun (1852-1934), sealed Takamura Koun Japan, early 20th century, Meiji period (1868-1912) to Taisho period (1912-1926) Finely cast as Prince Shotoku dressed in monastic robes, holding a handled censer decorated with two shishi, the hair parted down the middle and tied on both sides with a bow, the reverse with the artist’s seal TAKAMURA KOUN. HEIGHT 21.2 cm WEIGHT 1,182 g Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, few small nicks, light surface scratches, and minor casting irregularities. A key figure in the development of Japanese sculpture in the later Meiji, Taisho and early Showa eras, Takamura Koun started his career as a specialist carver of Buddhist images and came to international attention in 1877 when he showed a sandalwood figure of the White-robed Kannon at the first Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai (Domestic Industrial Exhibition). The figure was purchased by a Yokohama merchant for a high price and from that time on Koun increasingly produced work in a style designed to suit changing tastes in Japan and overseas, participating in foreign expositions and receiving many important official commissions. His most famous works are public statues of Kusunoki Masashige, outside the Imperial Palace, and of Saigo Takamori, at the entrance to Ueno Park. In October 1890 he became one of the first two sculptors to be appointed Teishitsu Gigeiin (Artist to the Imperial Household). For a more detailed assessment of Koun's well documented career, see Christine M. E. Guth, 'Takamura Koun and Takamura Kotaro: On Being a Sculptor', in Melinda Takeuchi ed., The Artist as Professional in Japan, Stanford, 2004, pp.152-179. Prince Shotoku (574–622), nephew of Empress Suiko (554–628), served as her regent and adviser on matters of civil administration. Reputed to be a great Buddhist scholar and influential statesman, he sent an official diplomatic delegation to China and, in 592, compiled the Seventeen Article Constitution, Japan’s earliest code of conduct for the ruling class. Sources indicate that the Imperial family initiated the veneration of Shotoku. At first deified as a Shinto kami, by the medieval period the prince came to be seen as a manifestation of a Buddhist deity. Here, he is portrayed as a paragon of filial piety, holding a handled censer and praying for the recovery of his father, Emperor Yomei, from illness. Auction comparison: Compare a related bronze figure of Laozi by the same artist, dated early 20 th century, at Christie’s, Japanese and Korean Art, 18 March 2014, New York, lot 545 (sold for USD 3,250).

Wopswede work community. Fritz Uphoff. 1890 Witten - 1966 Worpswede. 4 rare design drawings for woodcuts for ''Das Buch von Gott'' by Carl Emil Uphoff. Circa 1921. 4x pen and ink on paper, sheets 43 x 31 cm, mounted on mat. 50.5 x 35 cm, of which 1x signed and dated Fritz Uphoff lower right 2 sign. Sketches for a prophet's head: 1x signed and dated lower right. Fritz Uphoff 21 as well as inscribed lower left drawing to Prophet, 1x lower right signed a. inscribed Fritz Uphoff woodcut by Fritz Uphoff as well as inscribed lower left picture to Book of God by C.E.Uphoff; The Adoration of Mammon, Praying, plus two draft pencil drawings, each unsigned/uninscribed, sheets up to 54 x 35 cm, all unframed.- From the artist's estate.

Estim. 10 000 - 12 000 EUR

MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea. Dei discorsi ... nelli sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della Materia Medicinale. Venetia, appresso Felice Valgrisio, 1585. 2 parts in one volume in-folio, 370 x 255 mm. Binding to the arms in coeval flint vellum, cold-stamped fillet frame on the plates, in the center coat of arms of the Strozzi Family with the initials AS, smooth spine with gold friezes, gold lettering on the boards. Pages [160], 672, [4, with Frontispiece of Part Two], 673-1527, [12]. Letterpress embossing to the 3 Frontispieces, ornate capilettera; portrait of the author within oval with splendid border formed of allegorical figures and fruit; over 1000 large 3/4-page woodcuts. Restoration to binding, internally a few pages browned, traces of use and foxing. Rare Italian edition with the complete set of large-format figures. The fine silographs are masterfully engraved by Wolfang Meyerpeck on original drawings by Giorgio Liberale. Mattioli, intending to comment on Dioscorides' work on materia medica, wrote a book that was a huge success throughout Europe and was then reprinted for more than two centuries, becoming a must-have reference for apothecaries, pharmacists, botanists and physicians. More than 1,000 large woodcuts are engraved in this splendid edition, depicting mainly plants, flowers and fruits, but also animals, particularly birds and fish; each illustration is accompanied by a precise description and indications of the corresponding medical and dietary virtues. Two-part edition with continuous register and pagination. This is the second edition in Italian with large figures; the Author's Portrait, appearing for the first time in this edition, is on paper k8v. of part 1. Arber: "with large and very beautiful figures. "At the end the work is accompanied, with its own Frontispiece, by the treatise De Ratione distillandi, also punctually illustrated with 6 apparatus for distilling liquids.Edit 16, CNCE 46810; Adams D 679; BM STC, Italian Books S. 218; Nissen, BBI1304. See Agnes Robertson, Arber, Herbals, their origin and evolution, a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670, Cambridge, University press, 1912, p. 82. 2 parts in one volume in-folio, 370 x 255 mm. Contemporary limp vellum gilt with the Strozzi arms on covers with the initials AS, flat spine gilt, gilt edges. Pages [160], 672, [4, with Titlepage of Part two], 673-1527, [12]. Woodcut printer's device on all three title-pages, woodcut initials, full-page woodcut portrait of Mattioli within oval with splendid border formed of allegorical figures; over 1000 large 3/4-page woodcuts. Binding repaired at edges with new spine lining, gilt edges a little rubbed, title-page foxed, occasional staining or foxing through much of the volume, a few leaves browned. Rare Italian edition with the complete set of large-format woodcut illustrations. The fine woodcuts are masterfully engraved by Wolfang Meyerpeck on the original drawings by Giorgio Liberale. Mattioli, intending to comment on Dioscorides' work on materia medica, wrote a book that was a huge success throughout Europe and was then reprinted for more than two centuries, becoming a must-have reference for apothecaries, pharmacists, botanists and physicians. More than 1,000 large woodcuts are engraved in this splendid edition, depicting mainly plants, flowers and fruits, but also animals, particularly birds and fish; each illustration is accompanied by a precise description and indications of the corresponding medical and dietary virtues. Two-part edition with continuous register and pagination. This is the second edition in Italian with large woodcuts; the Portrait of the Author, appearing for the first time in this edition, is at leaf k8v. of the first part. Arber: "with large and very beautiful figures".At the end the work is accompanied, with its own Titlepage, by the treatise De Ratione distillandi, also punctually illustrated with 6 woodcuts depictind distillation procedures.

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