FOUR JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTINGS

FOUR JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTINGS, KAKEMONO

EDO/MEIJI PERIODS

Including an ink painting of a peony, inscribed 'a single peony is enough', by Murase Koutei (1744-1819) and sealed Chikuden for Tanomura Chikuden (1777-1835); another a branch of kaki tree by Suzuki Nanrei (1775-1884) with a poetry slip, tanzaku, by Shimizu Hamaomi (1776-1824) and reading 'puffs of wind swaying the tip of the fishing line, setting sun on the face of a lonely autumn stream'; the third depicting a monkey on a rock by Ohara Donshu (act. c.1850) and the last with two pumpkins and lychees, unsigned, 104.5cm x 33.5cm max. (4)

Provenance: the peony and kaki scrolls purchased in London in the early 1990s and the pumpkins in 1974.