ASIAN ART
AUCTION
Monday 15 December 2025,
from 10.00 a.m. (lots 1-213) and from 2.30 p.m. (lots 214-563)
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VIEWING
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Lot 201
Eighteen drawings
Japan, 19th century
Ink on paper, some with the addition of polychrome touches, some sketches intended for woodcut printing.
11.5 x 7.9 in. the largest
Starting price: € 100
Lot 202
KEISAI EISEN
Iwamurata (岩村田) 1835-1838
Large-format polychrome woodblock print (oban), from the series 木曾道中 (Kiso dochu, "The Kisokaido Road"), unsigned.
A similar example is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 21.4813).
9.92 x 14.17 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 203
KITAGAWA UTAMARO 1753-1806
Courtesans Imitating a Court Procession Edo period, 1806
Large format diptych of woodblock prints (oban).
Central and right sheets of a triptych.
A complete set is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (inv. JP150).
Measures refer to only a sheet.
14.57 x 10.04 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 204
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI 1760-1849
The Great Wave late 20th century
Woodblock print reproduction of Hokusai's famous masterpiece, wooden frame and protective glass.
Measures include frame.
13.90 x 19.09 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 205
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE II 1826-1869
Parrot and camellia periodo Edo, 1857-1858
Polychrome woodblock print in narrow format (hosoban).
12.76 x 4.33 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 206
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI 1760-1849
Numazu; Yui; Hakone; Shimada; Kanbara Edo period, circa 1804
Five small-format polychrome woodblock prints (koban), from an untitled series dedicated to the "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido."
5.12 x 6.89 in. the largest
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Starting price: € 500
Lot 207
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
The Suruga District in Edo (Toto Suruga-cho) periodo Edo, 1858
Large format polychrome woodblock print (oban), from the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (Fuji sanjurokkei), publisher Tsutaya Kichizō).
Specimens of this famous prints are in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, in the British Museum in Londra and in the
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Starting price: € 500
Lot 208
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
Okitsu (興津) Edo period, 1832
Large-format polychrome woodblock print (oban) from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido”.
9.37 x 13.78 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 209
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
Kanda Myojin temple (神田明神) 1854
Large-format polychrome woodblock print (oban) from the series “Famous Places of Edo (Edo Meisho).
9.65 x 14.49 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 210
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
Arai (荒井) 1832
Large-format polychrome woodblock print (oban) from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido”.
9.49 x 13.86 in.
Starting price: € 150