Lot 180
  • 180

TWO CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL FIGURES JAPAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

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the first a standing figure of Kannon, wearing flowing robes enameled with floral scrolls; the second depicting a figure of an immortal seated holding a qin and seated atop a separately-cast mythical beast (3)

Provenance

Figure of Kannon:
Galleria Simonetti, Rome.
Collection of Chevalier Raoul Tolentino (d. 1928).
American Art Association, New York, 23rd April 1924, lot 324.
Edward I. Farmer, New York, 1928. 

Figure of Immortal:
Calabresi, Lisbon, 1928.
L. Franklin, London, 1930.