Kokan (1747)

Lot 29: Shiba Kokan (1747-1818)

Name: Shiba Kokan (1747-1818)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: bjwim7hk8p

Est: $12,000 USD - $18,000 USD

Christie'sNew York, NY, USSeptember 22, 2005

Item Overview

Description

Shinobazu no ike (Shinobazu Pond)
Copperplate engraving with applied color, signed indistinctly Nihon kokusei Shiba Kokan (Carved in Japan, Shiba Kokan) and cyclically dated kinoe tatsu shigatsu horu (Tenmei fourth month (1784)--paper toned, soiled, restorations, trimmed into signature left, backed
16.8 x 38cm.

Artist or Maker

Kokan (1747)

Notes

The print is a reverse image intended to be seen by means of a mirrored viewing implement. For another example, see Masanobu Hosono, translated and adapted by Lloyd R. Craighill, Nagasaki Prints and Early Copperplates (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha, Ltd. and Shibundo, 1978), pl. 52, p. 76.

Auction Details

Japanese and Korean Art

Christie's

September 22, 2005, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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