QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

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AN ALBUM OF BODHI LEAF PAINTINGS
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
The album contains twelve Bodhi leaves, variously depicting groups of Luohan, Guanyin, and the Heavenly Kings, mounted within brocade covers. Accompanied by a green-ground brocade folio with a label reading ‘Album of Luohan paintings by Xiao Chengsheng’ signed Shinteno.
7 1/16 x 8 ¾ in. (17.9 x 22.3 cm.), Japanese wood box

Provenance

Yamanaka Seiitsu (1822-1885)
Osaka Art Club, between 1930s to early 1940s

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Lot Essay

Shinteno is the pseudonym of the Japanese calligapher and political figure Yamanaka Seiitsu (1822-1885), whose other inscription dated to 1878 appears on the underside of the box cover accompanying this lot.

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