31st Mar, 2025 11:00
Pursuing Perfection, the Perino Collection
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TA 5% Vat. KANŌ SOSEN (1814 — 1897)
Poet Libai at the Lushan Waterfall
KANŌ SOSEN (1814 — 1897)
Poet Libai at the Lushan Waterfall
Edo period, circa 1870s
A pair of Japanese hanging scroll paintings, kakejiku, ink and colour on silk, the left showing the Chinese poet Libai (Rihaku) (701 — 762) on a cliff edge accompanied by a pot of wine, admiring the Lushan (Rozan) waterfall depicted on the right scroll, with mist and spray rising up from the water to envelope the rock on which the poet is perched, each signed Kanō Sosen hitsu and sealed.
Image each 122cm x 31cm; total 202cm x 44.5cm (2)
Provenance: the Claudio Perino Collection, Turin, acquired mostly in Japan in early 2000s.
Exhibited: MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale, Turin, and Mueo delle Culture, Lugano, March - June 2021.
Literature: featured in the exhibition catalogue Kakemono, Five centiuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, p. 189, no 175.
Kanō Sosen can be associated with the later days of Kanō school, when a range of forms, styles and subject matter had been developed away from its earlier characteristic gold leaf and bold outlines. This pair of scrolls harks back to founder Kanō Masanobu’s (1434-1530) interest in Chinese idealist traditions and subject matter.
Libai (701 – 762) was one of the most prolific and important literary figures of the Tang dynasty, known to enjoy his wine as much as composing poetry.
This lot has been imported from outside the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission (TA) regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. Standard VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium. Buyers are invited to familiarise themselves with these rules prior to bidding.
Sold for £517
KANŌ SOSEN (1814 — 1897)
Poet Libai at the Lushan Waterfall
Edo period, circa 1870s
A pair of Japanese hanging scroll paintings, kakejiku, ink and colour on silk, the left showing the Chinese poet Libai (Rihaku) (701 — 762) on a cliff edge accompanied by a pot of wine, admiring the Lushan (Rozan) waterfall depicted on the right scroll, with mist and spray rising up from the water to envelope the rock on which the poet is perched, each signed Kanō Sosen hitsu and sealed.
Image each 122cm x 31cm; total 202cm x 44.5cm (2)
Provenance: the Claudio Perino Collection, Turin, acquired mostly in Japan in early 2000s.
Exhibited: MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale, Turin, and Mueo delle Culture, Lugano, March - June 2021.
Literature: featured in the exhibition catalogue Kakemono, Five centiuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, p. 189, no 175.
Kanō Sosen can be associated with the later days of Kanō school, when a range of forms, styles and subject matter had been developed away from its earlier characteristic gold leaf and bold outlines. This pair of scrolls harks back to founder Kanō Masanobu’s (1434-1530) interest in Chinese idealist traditions and subject matter.
Libai (701 – 762) was one of the most prolific and important literary figures of the Tang dynasty, known to enjoy his wine as much as composing poetry.
This lot has been imported from outside the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission (TA) regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. Standard VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium. Buyers are invited to familiarise themselves with these rules prior to bidding.
Auction: Pursuing Perfection, the Perino Collection, 31st Mar, 2025
We are thrilled to offer a selection of pieces from a distinguished Italian private collection of East Asian art.
Dr Claudio Perino begun collecting in the early 2000s. His interest in Japanese lacquer soon transitioned into woodblock prints and ceramics, eventually focusing on paintings from the Edo and Meiji periods.
Always eager to share the joy of experiencing his treasures, Dr Perino exhibited his lacquer, prints and paintings at the MAO - Museum of Oriental Art in Turin between 2008 - 2023. The twenty-four paintings featured in the current sale were a part of a large exhibition curated by Prof Matthi Forrer at the Museo delle Culture in Lugano and later the Torinian MAO between 2020 - 2022.
Among the sixty-seven lots presented here, there are a few pieces of Korean ceramics. Chinese art is represented among others by a porcelain plaque by Wang Qi, an early Qingbai ewer and two important Qing Dynasty embroidered silk robes.
Lots 38 and 40 will be a subject to a deposit payable at least 24hours before the auction day.
All lots are sold under Temporary Admission. Additional 5% is added on the hammer price, standard 20% VAT applies to our Buyer's Premium of 23%.
For any questions relating to the sale, please contact the Head of the Japanese Department, Marta Somauroo at marta@azcaauctions.com.
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7th - 30th March 2025, Monday to Friday: 11am to 4pm
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Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th March the preview will be open from 11am to 4pm
