ANONYMOUS

ANONYMOUS
BEAUTY AT HER DESK
PROBABLY MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY

A Japanese painting, ink and colour on paper, depicting a beauty wearing a Chinese dress by a desk laden with vessels, one a vase with a peacock feather, inscribed at the back Hyaku-juusan, Fujiaki Tadashi zo (Number 113, in the collection of Fujiaki Tadashi), 33.5cm x 47.5cm, framed and glazed.

Provenance: from the collection of Major-General Ian Lyall Grant MC, RE, (1915-2020), and thence by descent. After World War II, Major-General Grant co-founded the Burma Campaign Fellowship Group to reconcile those who had fought each other in Burma. He published a number of works about his experience in the Army, including 'Burma 1942: The Japanese Invasion' (1999). He was a keen collector of antiques and gems, travelling extensively in Japan, China and the Far East, and he later became a Fellow of the Gemmolological Association of Great Britain (FGA).