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Lot 348: Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674)

Est: £7,000 GBP - £9,000 GBP
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomMay 14, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674)
Ascending and descending dragons
A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on silk, signed Hogen Tan'yu gyonen rokujugosai hitsu [painted by Tan'yu, 65 years old]
104 x 42cm. (2)

Artist or Maker

Notes

Property of a Swiss Collector
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
With fitted inner and outer box bearing various inscriptions such as Bunsei nananen kinoe-saru juichigatsu nijunananichi, nobori ryu kudari ryu tanyu'sai sofuku, sakai tadatyuki kun kore wo tamawaru..... [Climbing and descending dragons; pair of hanging scrolls by Tan'yu was given by Mr. Sakai Tadayuki on the eleventh month, twenty-seventh day, 1824]

Auction Details

Japanese Art and Design

by
Christie's
May 14, 2008, 12:00 PM EST

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK