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Lot 361*,W
Tada Kochu (born 1873) Dated 1924
7 November 2013, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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Dated 1924
A pair of six-fold screens, painted in ink and colour on a gold silk ground, the right screen with a flamboyant peacock and peahen perched on rocks from behind which issues flowering peonies, signed Taisho kinoe-ne natsu kochu (summer in the year of the rat, Taisho 13 [1924], Kochu) with seal Kochu, the left screen with mandarin ducks beneath overarching branches of maple, the right foregound with stalks of tachi aoi growing beside a stream, signed Kochu with seal Kochu. 172.3cm x 377.8cm (67¾in x 148¾in). (2).
A pair of six-fold screens, painted in ink and colour on a gold silk ground, the right screen with a flamboyant peacock and peahen perched on rocks from behind which issues flowering peonies, signed Taisho kinoe-ne natsu kochu (summer in the year of the rat, Taisho 13 [1924], Kochu) with seal Kochu, the left screen with mandarin ducks beneath overarching branches of maple, the right foregound with stalks of tachi aoi growing beside a stream, signed Kochu with seal Kochu. 172.3cm x 377.8cm (67¾in x 148¾in). (2).
Footnotes
Little is know about this artist except that he was born in Kyoto and studied under Kono Bairei (1844-1895). He also appears to have been active in Okayama Prefecture in the Taisho and early Showa eras.
























