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A SIGNED SURIMONO DEPICTING A BASKET OF BAMBOO SHOOTS, SCHOOL OF TANI BUNCHO A SIGNED SURIMONO DEPICTING A BASKET OF BAMBOO SHOOTS, SCHOOL OF TANI BUNCHO Japan, 19th century Color woodblock print on paper. Horizontal chuban. Signed Bunkoku. The surimono depicting a basket with sprouting bamboo shoots and one sprig of cherry resting to the back. SIZE of the sheet 20.8 x 26 cm Condition: Good condition with wear. The colors slightly faded, minor browning of paper, few folds, creases, and some stains. Gently mounted on a cardboard with a descriptive label. Provenance: From the private collection of Thomas Padua, Mühldorf, Germany. Thomas Padua was an artist and collector of Japanese woodblock prints who exhibited his surimono collection at the Olaf Gulbransson Museum, in ‘Glückwünsche aus Kyoto: Japanische Shijo-Surimono aus der Sammlung Thomas Padua,’ 3 November 2013 to 26 January 2014. Surimono, literally "printed matter", are high-quality, limited-edition, privately commissioned, woodblock-printed "greeting cards," mainly produced between the 1790s and the 1830s, and usually ordered for New Year's greetings. Surimono usually paired poetic texts with images, and both were typically intended to carry the cachet of "insider knowledge" for a cultured and well-educated audience.

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A SIGNED SURIMONO DEPICTING A BASKET OF BAMBOO SHOOTS, SCHOOL OF TANI BUNCHO A SIGNED SURIMONO DEPICTING A BASKET OF BAMBOO SHOOTS, SCHOOL OF TANI BUNCHO Japan, 19th century Color woodblock print on paper. Horizontal chuban. Signed Bunkoku. The surimono depicting a basket with sprouting bamboo shoots and one sprig of cherry resting to the back. SIZE of the sheet 20.8 x 26 cm Condition: Good condition with wear. The colors slightly faded, minor browning of paper, few folds, creases, and some stains. Gently mounted on a cardboard with a descriptive label. Provenance: From the private collection of Thomas Padua, Mühldorf, Germany. Thomas Padua was an artist and collector of Japanese woodblock prints who exhibited his surimono collection at the Olaf Gulbransson Museum, in ‘Glückwünsche aus Kyoto: Japanische Shijo-Surimono aus der Sammlung Thomas Padua,’ 3 November 2013 to 26 January 2014. Surimono, literally "printed matter", are high-quality, limited-edition, privately commissioned, woodblock-printed "greeting cards," mainly produced between the 1790s and the 1830s, and usually ordered for New Year's greetings. Surimono usually paired poetic texts with images, and both were typically intended to carry the cachet of "insider knowledge" for a cultured and well-educated audience.

Estimate 150 - 300 EUR
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For sale on Wednesday 04 Sep : 11:00 (CEST)
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Galerie Zacke
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