A JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING

A JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING, KAKEMONO

EDO/MEIJI PERIOD

In ink and colour on paper, depicting a spray of chrysanthemum in a tall vase, an ornamental rock before it, with two lines of calligraphy and three red seals, together with a print of Hotei, the god seated on his giant sack and playing the shamisen by Katsushika Taito II (active 1810-1853), framed and glazed, 22cm x 132cm max. (2)

Provenance: a Spanish private collection, Madrid. The chrysanthemum painting purchased from the Kyoto Gallery, Brussels, and the Hotei print from the P. Huguenin Gallery, Geneva.