FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS

Auction 85, 23-27 Nov 2026

Session of Thursday 26 November 2026, 6.30 pm

On view: Thursday 19 November 2026 – Sunday 22 November 2026, 10.00 am – 4.00 pm · Order of the sale

222 lots

Lots

Lot 4631

Anonymous (18th cent.). Three pages from

Ashiya dôman ôchi kagami, iro bungen (The tale of Ashiya Dôman, the prosperous merchant of colourful statuses), Woodcut chûban, attached together on one sheet, ±35x25 cm. (total size), n.pl., 1762 (year of the water horse).

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 4635

Anonymous (19th cent.). (Duck).

Drawing, brush and ink and watercolour, 28,5x41,5 cm. Anonymous (19th cent.). (Flowers). Eight drawings, brush and ink, ±33x28 cm. - AND 10 other miscellaneous drawings.

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 4638

Anonymous (19th cent.). Lot of 70 designs,

mounted (hand)col. woodcut/ handdrawn/ printed design plates, all between ±7x7cm. and ±20x20 cm, loose in later tie-bound embroidered board portfolio, 4to. AND one embroidery album, 14 tipped-in embroidered silk plates, contemp wr., large 4to (worn and occas. stained).

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 4643

Anonymous (19th cent.). Yoru ji ame (Night and rain).

Leporello, 12 double-p. manuscript poems on col. and gold dusted paper, 1940, contemp. dec. silk covered boards w. manuscript hashira ticket, in silk covered portfolio w. manuscript hashira ticket. Anonymous (19th cent.). Kasen hôjô (Rare collection of immortal poets). Leporello, Kyoto, Happôdô, 1930s, 37 mounted col. woodcut plates, contemp. silk covered boards w. hashira ticket, in silk covered board portfolio w. hashira ticket.

Estimate €70 – €90

Lot 4652

Anonymous (20th cent.). Kimono patterns.

Lot of 11 drawings, mostly floral patterns, all between 67x30 and 84x33 cm., gouache on paper (3x), pen and watercolours on paper (8x).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 4653

Anonymous (20th cent.). Kimono patterns.

Lot of 11 drawings, mostly floral patterns, all between 54x30 and 79x33 cm., gouache on paper (1x), pen and watercolours on paper (8x), gouache on silk (2x).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 4654

Anonymous (20th cent.). Kimono patterns.

Lot of 12 drawings, mostly floral patterns, all between 72x30 and 84x33 cm., gouache on paper (1x), pen (and watercolours) on paper (9x), gouache on silk (2x).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 4655

Anonymous (20th cent.). Kimono patterns.

Lot of 13 drawings, mostly floral patterns, all between 53x30 and 81x33 cm., gouache on paper (3x), pen and watercolours on paper (9x), gouache on silk (1x).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 4656

Anonymous (20th cent.). Kimono patterns.

Lot of 13 drawings, mostly floral patterns, all between 64x30 and 93x33 cm., gouache on paper (1x), pen and watercolours on paper (10x), gouache on silk (2x).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 4657

Anonymous (20th cent.). Kimono patterns.

Lot of 13 drawings, mostly floral patterns, all between 64x30 and 126x33 cm., gouache on paper (2x), pen and watercolours on paper (10x), gouache on silk (1x).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 4658

Anonymous (20th cent.). Kimono patterns.

Lot of 15 drawings, mostly floral patterns, all between 59x30 and 82x33 cm., pen (and watercolours) on paper (12x), gouache on silk (3x).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 4659

Anonymous (20th cent.). Kimono patterns.

Lot of 15 drawings, mostly floral patterns, all between 68x30 and 80x33 cm., gouache on paper (1x), pen and watercolours on paper (13x), gouache on silk (1x).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 4660

Anonymous (20th cent.). (Mount Fuji).

Drawing, brush and ink and watercolour, 28,5x40,5 cm. AND 2 anonymous drawings w. Tikotin collector's seal, i.a. one other drawing of mount Fuji, 10x14 cm.

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 4662

Anonymous (20th cent.). (Sages).

Four drawings, brush and ink on thin Japanese paper, 26x34 cm. Anonymous (19th cent.). (Portraits of old women). Two drawings, brush and ink, 9x6 cm. AND 6 miscellaneous drawings in different styles.

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 4663

d'Ardenne de Tizac, H. Les Étoffes de la Chine. Tissus & Broderies.

Paris, Librairie des arts décoratifs, (±1914), (10)p., 43 (of 54) (col.) lithogr. and photogr. plates, loose in illustrated clothbacked board portfolio, folio. Zhongyang meishu xueyuan (Central academy of fine arts). Zhongguo Jindu Tuan'an (Chinese brocade patterns). Shanghai, Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1953, (6)p., 24 col. lithogr. ills., clothbacked board portfolio, folio.

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 4672

[Chinese export watercolours]. Lot

of 39 watercolours, all painted on pith paper, 19th cent., all preserved between glass plates, a few w. paper on verso, between ±8x14 and 18x27 cm., together in custom made contemp. burl walnut chest with brass straps and lock with key (17x50x23 cm.).

Estimate €1,000 – €1,500

Lot 4673

Eisen (1790-1848). (Bijin watching the cherry blossom).

Col. woodcut pillar print, 60x10,5 cm., signed Eisen ga, publ. Nishimura Yohachi, kiwame seal. Anonymous (1st half 19th cent.). (Woman holding a basket in her hands). Col. woodcut pillar print, 60x10,5 cm., not signed, without publisher, without seal (yellowed and creased).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 4675

[Erotica]. Xihuaren (Someone who cherishes flowers) (2nd half 19th cent.). Fengyue jiguan (Romantic affairs).

Jinan, 1880, leporello, 12 manuscript drawings w. accomp. manuscript text, brush and ink and watercolour, contemp. silk boards w. manuscript titlepiece. Wang (act. 1875-1908). (Courtly intercourse). Two leporello albums, both 11x9 cm., each w. 12 manuscript drawings, pen and watercolours, both inscribed by the same (transl. This folding chungongtu was made in the capital by Wang during the years of Guangxu), contemp. unif. silk boards. - AND 1 other similar erotic leporello album.

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 4680

(Fusuma Design Book).

N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (±1960), 19 double-p. col. plates partly w. sm. tipped-on plate showing the doors in their entirety, and 4 single paper samples, all numb. between "401" and "475", orig. dec. boards, 4to.

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 4685

Gyokushô, Kawabata (1842-1913) (style of). (Swallow).

Fan drawing, 15,5x59 cm., brush and ink and watercolour on paper w. gold borders, signed Gyokushô, artist seal, dated 1917. AND 4 other fan drawings by various artists, brush and ink (and watercolour) on paper, all ±17x48 cm. (all doubled; three formerly used as a fan; one waterstained; one foxed).

Estimate €50 – €70