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Surimono catalogue FINAL WEB.pdf - Sanders of Oxford

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3. Porcelain cup, tie-dyed silk, and hair ornaments.<br />

Woodblock with gauffrage<br />

after Kikukawa Eishin (active c. 1810s - 1820s)<br />

early 1890’s<br />

Shikishiban 212 x 186 mm<br />

mounted<br />

A calander picture for 1818.<br />

Meiji A copy<br />

Signature: Horai Eishin ga.<br />

Refrence: Keyes, Roger. The Art <strong>of</strong> <strong>Surimono</strong>: Privately publised Japanese woodblock prints and<br />

books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Sotheby, London, 1985. pg. 514, 6.<br />

The object in the black lacquer box is a tortoiseshell hairpin. The tie-dye silk cloth, the green<br />

embossed white cords, and the silver hairpin are all hair ornaments. The original print was<br />

published as a picture calendar for 1818.<br />

[27724]<br />

£250

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