.jpg?w=1)
Dragon amidst Cloud
Details
ANONYMOUS (PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO CHEN RONG, 13TH-14TH CENTURY)
Dragon amidst Cloud
A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper
Each scroll measures 26.5 x 66.5 cm. (10 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.)
(2)Four collector’s seals: two of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) and two of Zen’ami (1386-1482)
Titleslips by Soami (1472-1525)
NOTE:
According to Muromachidono Gyoukou Okazari-Ki, on 26 October 1437, Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394-1441, the sixth shogun) invited Gohanazono emperor (1419-1471) to his house where there were two dragon paintings hanging on the wall. It is likely that those paintings are this lot.
In Higashiyama Collection of Treasures, this lot was first in the collection of West-Honganji temple, then in one of the houses of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598), recorded as no. 12 in the Chinese paintings collection.
Soami (1472-1525) was a Japanese painter and landscape artist, and the grandson and son of Noami and Geiami, who were painters and art connoisseurs. Soami excelled in Chinese landscape techniques and developed his characteristic style which influenced Japanese painters of the generations that followed.
Dragon amidst Cloud
A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper
Each scroll measures 26.5 x 66.5 cm. (10 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.)
(2)Four collector’s seals: two of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) and two of Zen’ami (1386-1482)
Titleslips by Soami (1472-1525)
NOTE:
According to Muromachidono Gyoukou Okazari-Ki, on 26 October 1437, Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394-1441, the sixth shogun) invited Gohanazono emperor (1419-1471) to his house where there were two dragon paintings hanging on the wall. It is likely that those paintings are this lot.
In Higashiyama Collection of Treasures, this lot was first in the collection of West-Honganji temple, then in one of the houses of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598), recorded as no. 12 in the Chinese paintings collection.
Soami (1472-1525) was a Japanese painter and landscape artist, and the grandson and son of Noami and Geiami, who were painters and art connoisseurs. Soami excelled in Chinese landscape techniques and developed his characteristic style which influenced Japanese painters of the generations that followed.
Provenance
PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTOR (LOTS 935-936)
Literature
The World of the Dragon and Tiger, Nezu Museum, Tokyo, 10 October 1986, pp. 34-35, 125, pl.35.
Art of the Tea Ceremony, Daiichi Hoki, Tokyo, 1984, p.41, pl.31.
Art of the Tea Ceremony, Daiichi Hoki, Tokyo, 1980, p.53, pl.19.
Higashiyama Gyobutsu Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Otsuka Kogeisha, Tokyo, 1976, p.199
Heichiro Sekiguchi ed., Kankojo Sakai Family Collection, 1910
Art of the Tea Ceremony, Daiichi Hoki, Tokyo, 1984, p.41, pl.31.
Art of the Tea Ceremony, Daiichi Hoki, Tokyo, 1980, p.53, pl.19.
Higashiyama Gyobutsu Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Otsuka Kogeisha, Tokyo, 1976, p.199
Heichiro Sekiguchi ed., Kankojo Sakai Family Collection, 1910
Exhibited
Tokyo, Nezu Museum, The World of the Dragon and Tiger, 10 October – 9 November 1986, no.35
Tokyo National Museum, Art of the Tea Ceremony, 7 Oct – 24 Nov, 1980
Nagoya, Tokugawa Art Museum, Higashiyama Gyobutsu Exhibition, 30 Oct – 7 November 1976
Tokyo, Nezu Museum, Higashiyama Gyobutsu Exhibition, 16-24 October 1976
Tokyo National Museum, Art of the Tea Ceremony, 7 Oct – 24 Nov, 1980
Nagoya, Tokugawa Art Museum, Higashiyama Gyobutsu Exhibition, 30 Oct – 7 November 1976
Tokyo, Nezu Museum, Higashiyama Gyobutsu Exhibition, 16-24 October 1976
Brought to you by
Stephenie Tsoi