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 two prints, one of Hotei, the god seated on his giant sack and playing the shamisen by Katsushika Taito II (active 1810-1853), the other a bird's-eye view of the coastal city of Kamakura, the two prints framed and glazed, 22cm x 132cm max. (3)

Provenance: a Spanish private collection, Madrid. The chrysanthemum painting purchased from the Kyoto Gallery, Brussels; the Hotei print from the P. Huguenin Gallery, Geneva, and the view of Kamakura purchased in Geneva in the 1990s.