Lot 342
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ANONYMOUS: chuban (25.5 x 19cm.); a pair of mandarin ducks on a rock by a frozen pond under a snow-covered plum tree, accompanied by a poem, bearing signature Koryusai ga--very good impression, good color, slightly soiled, faint centerfold restored on reverse
ANONYMOUS: chuban (25.5 x 19cm.); a pair of mandarin ducks on a rock by a frozen pond under a snow-covered plum tree, accompanied by a poem, bearing signature Koryusai ga--very good impression, good color, slightly soiled, faint centerfold restored on reverse

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ANONYMOUS: chuban (25.5 x 19cm.); a pair of mandarin ducks on a rock by a frozen pond under a snow-covered plum tree, accompanied by a poem, bearing signature Koryusai ga--very good impression, good color, slightly soiled, faint centerfold restored on reverse

Lot Essay

Helen Gunsaulus illustrates three similar chuban bird-and-flower prints and attributes each to Komatsuken (see Gunsaulus, Harunobu, Koryusai..., in The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints [Chicago: The Art Institute, 1965], nos. 115, 116).