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Asian Art | October 30, 2024

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Offering items from two family collections acquired in China in the early 1900s. One from Dr. Stanley Burns, who worked in China to provide much-needed medical care to the local population. The other group from L. Nelson and Virginia Bell, who were missionaries in China from 1916 to 1941. Other Chinese and Japanese items from private collections include Qing Dynasty enamel porcelains, bronze and porcelain water droppers, a fine selection of snuff bottles, along with a group of jade figures, bronze Buddhas, furniture, and jewelry.
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Lot 755

Toyohara Chikanobu

Estimate: $400 - $600
Starting Bid
$200

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(Japanese, 1838-1912)

Wedding Scene, from the Life of Lord Tokugawa's Family series, circa 1896, artist's signature and red seal, double fish publisher's seal upper left, woodblock print, polyptych composed of five oban tate-e sheets, 14 x 46-1/2 in.; gilt wood frame, 19-5/8 x 52-1/2 x 3/4 in.

Provenance: Private Collection, Ansonville, North Carolina

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Private Collection, Ansonville, North Carolina

not examined out of frame, laid slightly off-center in frame, leftmost lower corner folded under, some creasing to paper, a few small tears at join lines, some areas of fading, light staining; frame with light wear and abrasions, glass panel slightly loose, frame with separations at corners, some flaking and loss to gilding