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Auction Name: Arts From Asia and Oceana
Auction Date: 12/10/2025 - 12/10/2025
Sale Number: #166941
Total Lots: 33
Sold Lots: 16.0
Lots Sold: 48.48%
Unsold Lots: 17

Total Sales (EUR): 18,719.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 12,960.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 16,310.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 15,680.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 20,090.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 93.18%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
267	Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Utagawa Hiroshige II, Utagawa Sadahide and Utagawa Yoshikazu	Rare album of prints featuring thirteen works depicting Yokohama (i.e. 38 oban tate-e) by various artists		EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 12,700.00
275	Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1949)	Print oban yoko-e, titled Banyugawa, kako - Mouth of the Banyu River, signed Kiyoshi and seal,	1936	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,524.00
274	Ito Shinsui (1898-1972), 1930	Print in dai oban tate-e format, from the series "Gendai bijin shu dai isshu (First Collection of Modern Beauties)", here "Yoku-go" (After the Bath),	1930	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,524.00
276	Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950)	Oban tate-e print from the "Tokyo juni dai" (Twelve Scenes of Tokyo) series, here "Kagurazaka-dori, ugo no yoru" (Night after Rain	1929	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 571.50
268		Two triptychs of oban tate-e prints framed under glass, "Furyu Genji sono no ume" (The elegant Genji in a garden of cherry blossoms),	19th century	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 508.00
18		Lot of miscellaneous literature (weapons, Asian art) including "Arts of Asia", "Daruma" and "Apollo" magazines, etc.		EUR 10.00 - 20.00	EUR 508.00
266	Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) and Katsuchika Hokusai (1760-1849), Japan, 19th century	Four prints:		EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 355.60
285	Japan, Meiji era, 1894	Printed Japanese map of Peking, surrounded by smaller maps of other cities in northern China (in squares around): Tianjin, Shenyang/Mukden, Lushunkou/Port Arthur, etc.)	1894	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 254.00
271	Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)	Surimono print depicting Kikujido seated among chrysanthemums near a river, his brush in one hand and a leaf in the other, his ink stone at his feet	circa 1800	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 254.00
265	Tomioka Eisen, Toshikata Mizuno, etc. - Japan, Meiji era (1868-1912)	Album featuring thirty-five Japanese prints (many kuchi-e) by various artists such as Tomioka Eisen, Toshikata Mizuno, Takeuchi Keishu, Kajita Hanko, Toshimine, etc.,	(20th century).	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 228.60
43		Five bound volumes containing Buddhist religious texts	20th century	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 114.30
12	Kikou YAMATA	Les huit renommees, with 47 unpublished drawings by FOUJITA"	1927	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.80
6	M. CHAMPOUD	Quelques notes sur les Inro	1942	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	EUR 38.10
17	Louis GONSE	L'art japonais"	1926	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 38.10
8	Lacadio HEARN	Lettres Japonaises	1928	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.40
11	Paul CLAUDEL	Cent phrases pour eventails", copy Ndeg3127 (hors commerce).	1942	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	EUR 25.40
270	Kikugawa Eizan (1787-1867), Japan, 19th century	Two oban tate-e prints, one depicting a young courtesan signed Eizan hitsu, the other showing two women (bijin) strolling along, lanterns in hand.		EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
2	Yokiti YAMAMOTO	Japanese postage stamps	1940	EUR 20.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
284	Japan, 19th century	Three black-and-white sketches and three test prints, the drawings of a hero or warrior and a geisha, the tests for a fan print (uchiwa-e) of a woman		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
3	Jean A. KEIM	Mon Japon du demi-siecle	1952	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold

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