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Book: The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
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Pre 1950 item# 952893 (stock# 10600)
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a) Sze, Mai-mai, The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. translated from the Chinese and edited by Mai-mai Sze, Princeton University Press: Princeton 1978 (second printing). (Good clean copy)
b) Priest, Alan, Chinese Flower and Fruit Prints From the Mustard Seed Garden and Ten Bamboo Studios-Metropolitan Museum of Art. American Studio Books/Holme Press, Inc.: New York/London 1946. Hardcover binding with twelve loose sheets with twelve tipped in prints, reproductions of prints from the Mustard Seed Garden and Ten Bamboo Studios, plus an introduction by Alan Priest, former curator of the Far Eastern Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. (Condition of binding mediocre, prints mostly in very good condition)
c) Sze, Mai-mai, The Way of Chinese Painting, its ideas and techniques, random House : New York 1959. Paperback. (yellowed, but good condition)
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Book: Chinese painted enamels
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Pre 1980 item# 950257 (stock# 10597)
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Two books by the same title:
a) Hyde, J. A. Lloyd, Chinese Painted Enamels. From Private and Museum Collections. New York: China House Gallery/ The China Art Institute in America, 1969. Soft cover. 8vo., 48 pp., 71 objects described and photographed in b/w.
b) Gillingham, Michael, Chinese Painted Enamels. An Exhibition held in the Department of Eastern Art, June, July 1978, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1978. Soft cover. 96 pp., 131 objects described and photographed in b/w.
a) Slightly yellowed at edges, very good condition. b) Slightly faded at spine and edges, minimal traces of usage, good condition.
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Book: The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art
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Pre 1980 item# 949969 (stock# 10596)
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The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art
Consulting editors: Katsuichiro Kamei, Seiichiro Takahashi, Ichimatsu Tanaka,
New York/Tokyo: Weatherhill/Heibonsha 1972-1976.
The complete series:
Vol 1: Major Themes in Japanese Art Itsuji Yoshikawa ; Vol 2: The Beginnings of Japanese Art Namio Egami ; Vol 3: Shinto: Ise and Izumo Shrines Yasutada Watanabe ; Vol 4: Asuka buddhist Art: Horyu-ji Seiichi Mizuno ; Vol 5: Nara Buddhist Art: Todai-ji Tsuyoshi Kobayashi ; Vol 6: The Silk Road and the Shoso-in Ryoichi Hayashi ; Vol 7: Temples of Nara and their Art Minoru Ooka ; Vol 8: Art in Japanese esoteric Buddhism Takaaki Sawa ; Vol 9: Heian Temples: Ryodo-in and Chuson-ji Toshio Fukuyama ; Vol 10: Painting in the Yamato Style Saburo Ienaga ; Vol 11: Sculpture of the Kamakura Period Hisashi Mori ; Vol 12: Japanese Ink Painting: Shubun to Sesshu Ichimatsu Tanaka ; Vol 13: Feudal Architecture of Japan Kiyoshi Hirai ; Vol 14: Momoyama Decorative Painting Tsuguyoshi Doi ; Vol 15: Japanese Art and the Tea Ceremony T. Hayashi, M. Nakamura, S. Hayashiya ; Vol 16: Japanese Costume and Textile Arts Seiroku Noma ; Vol 17: Momoyama Genre Painting Yuzo Yamane ; Vol 18: Edo Painting: Sotatsu and Korin Hiroshi Mizuo ; Vol 19: The Namban Art of Japan Yoshitomo Okamoto ; Vol 20: Edo Architecture: Katsura and Nikko Naomi Okawa ; Vol 21: Traditional Domestic Architecture of Japan Teiji Itoh ; Vol 22: Traditional Woodblock Prints of Japan Seiichiro Takahashi ; Vol 23: Japanese Painting in the Literati Style Yoshiho Yonezawa and Chu Yoshizawa ; Vol 24: Modern Currents in Japanese Art Michiaki Kawakita ; Vol 25: Japanese Art in World Perspective Toru Terada ; Vol 26: Folk Arts and Crafts of Japan Kageo Muraoka and Kichiemon Okamura ; Vol 27: The Art of Japanese Calligraphy Yujiro Nakata ; Vol 28: The Garden Art of Japan Masao Hayakawa ; Vol 29: The Art of Japanese Ceramics Tsugio Mikami ; Vol 30: Japanese Art: A Cultural Appreciation ; Vol 31: General Index.
No dust jackets, some traces of usage, mostly good to very good condition.
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Zushi with figure of a horse, Japan, Meiji period, 19th
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Pre 1900 item# 940618 (stock# 10593)
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Highly unusual shrine with the image of a horse looking back. The horse has a brocade cover over his back and is standing behind a mesh wire fence, the way they would be kept in temple compounds. Polychoromed wood with some gold details. The roof of the shrine is a separate piece. Japan, Meiji period, 19th century.
Height of zushi ca. 7.8 inches (19.5 cm).
Frontal baldachin dislodged but still extant, one door lost its hinge-functions (triangular splinter on right door on last photo), some chipping of the paint on brocade cover of horse. Otherwise very good condition.
This piece needs to be seen as a form of ema, which were offered to temples and shrines as a calling to the deity. The horse is seen to be used by various deities.
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Gorinto, reliquary, rock crystal, Japan, Edo Period
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Pre 1900 item# 940167 (stock# 10592)
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Small reliquary, in the shape of a five-element stupa, gorinto, made of rock crystal. The stupa is built according to the Five Elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether). The base is octagonal in shape (which may be square, as well), as is the bottom part of the cover (which may be triangular, as well). The reliquary is made of two pieces of crystal: earth and water (the water segment can hold the relic); fire, air and ether. Japan, prob. 18/19th century.
Height 6 7/8 inches (17.5 cm)
Some tiny chips at edge of stopper, otherwise excellent condition.
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Zushi with figure of Amida Buddha, Japan, 18th century
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Pre 1800 item# 940163 (stock# 10591)
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Very elaborate double-hinged door shrine with the wooden figure of a sitting Amida Buddha, both hands in mudra before him. Behind his head and back a double mandorla. Amida is sitting on a lotus pedestal on top of a multi-tiered base in flower-shaped profile. His garment decorated in fine gold hand painted flower and geometric patterns. All details of the base accentuated in hand painted gold.
The outside of the zushi in red lacquer with a tiny carving of a phoenix on the top front, richly engraved hardware. The inside of the zushi doors decorated with lotus flowers in gold and mineral colors on gold. The baldachin decorated in mineral colors and gold with Buddhist symbols.
Extremely fine carving of Buddha, mandorla and base.
Japan, Edo period 18/19th century.
Height of zushi ca. 3.9 inches (9.7 cm).
Painting on the inside doors rubbed, fraction of tip of mandorla missing, carving in excellent condition.
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Zushi with figure of Amida Buddha, Japan, 18th century
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Pre 1837 VR item# 939228 (stock# 10590)
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Very small shrine with the wooden figure of a standing Amida Buddha, both hands in mudra. Behind his head a round mandorla. Amida is standing on a lotus pedestal surrounded by whirling clouds. His garment decorated in fine gold hand painted flower and geometric patterns. The inside of the zushi decorated with geometric design in gold on gold. The inside of the roof decorated with a lotus pod in gold on gold.
Extremely fine carving of Buddha. The clouds are deeply cut, gilded and touched with some color, as is the amndorla. The shrine can be hung from a small eyelet on its roof. Japan, Edo period 18/19th century.
Height of zushi ca. 3.9 inches (9.7 cm).
Gilding on doors minimally rubbed. Excellent condition.
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