Online Auction 16310From Artist to Woodblock: Japanese Prints Online
TOTOYA HOKKEI (1780-1850)
Lot 45

TOTOYA HOKKEI (1780-1850)

A warbler in a cage

Closed12 July 2018

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GBP 4,375

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TOTOYA HOKKEI (1780-1850)
A warbler in a cage
Bush Warbler (uguisu), from a set titled Eighteen Illustrations for Staircase of Ancient Words (Kogentei juhachiban tsuzuki)
Woodblock surimono, signed Hokkei, privately published, issued in 1831 for the Katsushika Poetry Club
Shikishiban surimono (21.3 x 18.5 cm.)

Specialist note

For a different design from the same series in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, accession number 1954.550, go to:
www.artic.edu/aic/collections/search-artwork

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