Lot 251: Four scroll paintings including one by Hanabusa Itcho (1652-1724) The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art

Late 17th to 19th century Kakejiku, comprising one by Itcho, in ink and slight colour on paper, depicting three sparrows in flight and the two perched on top of rice sheaves, signed Hanabusa Itcho sho with seal; the second after Korin, in ink and colour on paper, depicting a black cockerel and four chicks besides wild plants, inscribed Hokkyo Korin with seal; the third, in ink on silk, depicting a crow perched on withered branches beneath the full moon, signed with indecipherable signature and seal; the last by Fujiwara Morimichi (Kano Tanshin), in ink on silk, depicting a hawk perched on the trunk of a plum tree, signed Fujiwara Morimichi hitsu with two seals. The smallest 29cm x 50cm (11 3/8in x 19 5/8in), the largest 113cm x 47cm (44½in x 18½in). (4).

29cm x 50cm

: the first from the Michael Tomkinson collection, no.164.

掛軸　四幅　（雀図、鶏図、烏図、鷹図）　17世紀後期-19世紀