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155Erotic painting of a couple copulating. Tantra position from the Kama Sutra. 10 3/4 x 7. Framed. unknown
198128802Salem Mass: Peabody Museum 1981. Revised Edition. 150illustrations 60 in color. xviii 535 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to. Cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Revised Edition. 150illustrations 60 in color. xviii 535 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to. <br/><br/> Peabody Museum hardcover
1844ST18420aFirenze Florence: David Passigli 1844. 85 x 53 mm. 3 3/8 x 2 1/8". 3 p.l. 326 2 section title 327-659 pp. <br/> Contemporary stiff vellum charmingly gilt covers with graceful gilt frame of volutes and flowers central ornament formed by similar tools smooth spine tooled with gilt volutes and flowers forming central panel with gilt lettering a small gilt bird of paradise above and below this marbled endpapers all edges gilt. WITH SPLIT FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS visible when the book is open at the section title for part II the painting on the first half of the leaves A SWEEPING CITY VIEW OF JERUSALEM that on the second part featuring THE DOME OF THE ROCK ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT. With engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and two engravings depicting scenes from the poem all with original tissue guards. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of William Dunville see below. Doris Varner Welsh A Bibliography of Miniature Books 6611. Corners lightly bumped one spot of light rubbing to gilt on upper cover isolated spots of faint foxing but A VERY FINE SPECIMEN clean and bright inside and out the fore-edge paintings well preserved.<br/> <br/> This delightful miniature edition is adorned with two fore-edge paintings showing different views of the title city both visible when the book is open to the title page of part II of Tasso's Crusader epic "Jerusalem Delivered." Given the restricted area available for a "canvas" our artist has done a remarkable job both in the level of detail and the sense of space and grandeur the scenes evoke so it is not surprising that this volume was in the Irene Winterstein Collection of Important Miniature Books Christie's sale of 10 March 2000 lot 277 fetching $1455 all in. This is a rare miniature edition: Welsh records only one copy in her bibliography. Our copy belonged to Irish bibliophile and philanthropist William Dunville 1812-1874 who was also a whiskey magnate and magistrate. After its first founder John Dunville died William Dunville his only surviving son became the next chairman of Dunville & Co Belfast who are still famous for their whiskey today. He headed the company from 1851 to 1874. David Passigli unknown
a87539c. 1860. Picture painted in thick intensely colorful tempera or watercolor on unusual thin paper believed to be pith paper. The painting is mounted on piece of rice paper by means of a 1/2 inch wide blue silk ribbon. Image bordered by the ribbon is 8 x 13 inches 20x32 cm. The paper is 9-1/2 x14-1/2 inches 24x36 cm. The image is Fine the paper is very thin and slightly aged so overall VG. Clearly a family of the nobility with great wealth. Women all have bound feet. Lovely fine detail in faces clothing and furniture. Museum quality. Pictures available on request. . hardcover
a87538c. 1860. Picture painted in thick intensely colorful tempera or watercolor on unusual thin paper believed to be pith paper. The painting is mounted on piece of rice paper by means of a 1/2 inch wide blue silk ribbon. Image bordered by the ribbon is 8 x 13 inches 20x32 cm. The paper is 9-1/2 x14-1/2 inches 24x36 cm. The image is Fine the paper is very thin and slightly aged so overall VG. Clearly a family of the nobility with great wealth. Women all have bound feet. Lovely fine detail in faces clothing and furniture. Museum quality. Pictures available on request. . hardcover
191330809Paris: Leo Delteil & A. Le Corbeiller 1913. Illustrated with plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Two volumes bound in one. Later half red morocco gilt. Some minor wear else very good. Illustrated with plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Volumes I and II of Delteil's yearbook of painting and engraving sales. JC-NY/Biblio/5 Leo Delteil & A. Le Corbeiller unknown
182017384London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees & Orme 1820. Third edition. Illustrated by Five engravings intended to show the Different Stages of the Neutral Tint title vignette. 1 vols. 8vo. Original rose paper-backed blue boards printed paper label on upper cover Price 10s.6d. Boards.". Rubbed spine and edges worn interior quite fresh. A very good copy of this unusual work. Third edition. Illustrated by Five engravings intended to show the Different Stages of the Neutral Tint title vignette. 1 vols. 8vo. There are instructions and recipes for making the colors needed for painting on velvet at the back. A source for Theorem painters Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme unknown
19472110502150415255Mainichishinbunsha 1947. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Mainichishinbunsha paperback
19402110502150414214Great Japan Oratorical Society Kodansha 1940. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Great Japan Oratorical Society Kodansha paperback
19682110502150412974Fujin Picture Company 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Fujin Picture Company paperback
19372110502150415239Arusu 1937. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Arusu paperback
19612110502150414249International information company 1961. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 International information company paperback
2090202122800074Kumamoto shiyakusho N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Kumamoto shiyakusho paperback
LY-CDC9-P7DAUsed - Good. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. May have labels on cover. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes highlighting and underlining. The copy can include previous owner inscriptions. Used books may not include companion materials may not include cdrom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority! All pages are intact and the cover is intact. May have labels on cover. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes highlighting and underlining. The copy can include previous owner inscriptions. Used books may not include companion materials may not include cdrom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority! unknown
8327118. ALBUM PAINTING NAKAJIMA Yusho. SHOKEI GAFU Orihon folding painting album in gafu style full of lovely views of Japan. 28 x 16.8 CM. Preliminary and final decorated pages plus a 2 page table of contents and 42 double page color paintings each 28.2 X 33.4 CM in a late Shijo Kyoto-school style by Nakajima Yusho 1837-1905 the son of Nakajima Raisho and a talented artist in his own right. In brocade covers with a brushed title label and enclosed in a clasped chitsu case. Lovely throughout delicate colors skilled brushwork. unknown
19725566Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1972. Limited Edition. Full Leather in Slipcase. Fine/Very Good. 16mo. Pp. 238. With 111 black-and-white illustrations. Index. Full green leather with gilt and blindstamp design on boards and spine. In the publisher's marbled slipcase reflecting a design similar to the binding. Of an edition limited to 3203 copies this is copy 632. A charming volume in the publisher's series on European art this volume dedicated to non-Italian masters. A superb copy in fresh condition with a top seam of the the slipcase starting and just a touch of overall wear. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore unknown
19725567Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1972. Limited Edition. Full Leather in Slipcase. Fine/Near Fine. 16mo. Pp. 238. With 111 black-and-white illustrations. Index. Full brown leather with gilt and blindstamp design on boards and spine. In the publisher's marbled slipcase reflecting a design similar to the binding. Of an edition limited to 2899 copies this is copy 1072. A charming volume in the publisher's series on European art this devoted to the achievement of Italian painters. A well preserved copy with the slipcase showing only the slightest wear. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore unknown
200270173Barcelona and Madrid: Lunwerg Editores 2002. Bilingual edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 237pp. Quarto 29.5 cm Black paper over boards. Spine ends and corners of the covers gently bumped. In the dust jacket with scuffing to the rear panel. Spanish and English text. A survey highlighting a wide selection of paintings depicting images related to the world of medicine. Includes paintings by Theodor Rombouts Salvador Dalí Andrea Mantegna Rembrandt Gustave Doré Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Max Oppenheimer among many others. Lunwerg Editores hardcover
194563891San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 1211 Jackson Street ca. 1945. One large oil painting on canvas sized 13 x 18 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artist’s niece and with the original green & gilt frame now professionally cleaned and w/ artist’s business card mounted on verso of frame along with numbering & size. Signed in lower corner this painting was presented by the artist following the War to his niece and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting depicts a young Chinese-American mother and child buying an orange with fruit crates stacked beside in front of the mirror and pedestrian walking by as well as the advertising signage in the doorway in Chinese painted by Hobby. The sign reads 油糖èœèˆ– You tang chai pu — oil and sugar vegetable shop and produce in the crates below the window in the foreground appear to be cabbages oranges and possibly mangoes. Hobby wrote in his 1936 illustrated book “Chinatown San Francisco†that there were a variety of vegetable and produce “Chinese Food Shops†situated from Washington to Jackson Street selling blue-green melons mustard greens water chestnuts and more.Hobby 1886-1964 was the son of an Iowa City IA ophthalmologist and moved with the family as a teenager to San Diego CA about 1900 where he began working at 14 as a sketch artist and later published a book in San Diego in 1919 with his artwork. He studied art at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines the Art Students League in New York and became portrait and landscape painter in San Diego until 1923. After a divorce from Plooma Crowther he settled in San Francisco in Chinatown where he became an instructor at the Art Center while also painting and sketching the densely populated area publishing “The Street of Dragon Lanterns Chinatown of San Francisco†in 1936 while contracting with the Madison & Burke Agency through World War II. Exhibits of his paintings and pen & ink sketches were displayed at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1928 and the Society for Sanity in Art in 1945. See: Maud McB. Maywood Palm City The Chula Vista Star July 9 1937 p. 6; Sketches of San Diego 1919. Carl Frederick Hobby, 1211 Jackson Street, unknown
192963892San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 1353 Post Street 1929. One small oil painting on canvas sized 8.5 x 11 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artist’s sister Ruth Annis Hobby Gibbs 1878-1940 Scouticut Neck Fairhaven Massachusetts with the original wooden frame now professionally cleaned and w/ artist’s signature in lower right corner of painting this painting was presented with a gift inscription in Chinese å二月廿五號一ä¹äºŒä¹ December 25 1929 and given with others by the artist over a 10 year period in the 1920’s-1930’s to his sister and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting portrays a Chinese-American woman and child strolling past shop windows in Chinatown w/ awnings and fire-escapes looming above while another person carrying large basket walks away and another small child looks on. After settling in San Francisco’s Chinatown less than 6 years before the artist had launched his lifetime work to depict through oil paints and pen & ink the quintessential life to be discovered in Chinatown. Eventually he would issue a book just 7 years later in 1936 of Chinatown sights and attractions filled with his pen & ink illustrations. Hobby 1886-1964 was the son of an Iowa City IA ophthalmologist and moved with the family as a teenager to San Diego CA about 1900 about the time his sister Ruth Annis Hobby voyaged to marry her fiance during the Philippine Insurrection in 1899 in Manila. He studied art at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines the Art Students League in New York and became portrait and landscape painter in San Diego until 1923. After a divorce from Plooma Crowther he settled in San Francisco in Chinatown where he became an instructor at the Art Center while also painting and sketching the densely populated area publishing “The Street of Dragon Lanterns Chinatown of San Francisco†in 1936 while contracting with the Madison & Burke Agency through World War II. Exhibits of his paintings and pen & ink sketches were displayed at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1928 and the Society for Sanity in Art in 1945. See: Maud McB. Maywood Palm City The Chula Vista Star July 9 1937 p. 6. Carl Frederick Hobby, 1353 Post Street, unknown
194564014San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 1211 Jackson Street ca. 1945. One large oil painting on canvas sized 11 x 14 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artist’s niece and with the original green & gilt frame sized 14.5 x 17.5 in. now professionally cleaned and w/ artist’s pencil numbering on verso of frame and apparently executed about the same time as his “Produce Stand†painting. Signed in lower corner this painting was presented by the artist following the War to his niece and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting depicts a young Chinese-American child drinking from a bottle of orange soda in traditional Chinese hat and high-collared cloak with rain falling around the subject as well as brick wall and cityscape faintly in the background. Chinese-American children were frequent subjects along with their families for the artist as he often featured them with parents marketing or in their everyday lives on the teeming streets of San Francisco. This close large portrait represents an unusual format for the artist as he tended to paint and draw group scenes.Hobby 1886-1964 was the son of an Iowa City IA ophthalmologist and moved with the family as a teenager to San Diego CA about 1900 where he began working at 14 as a sketch artist and later published a book in San Diego in 1919 with his artwork. He studied art at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines the Art Students League in New York and became portrait and landscape painter in San Diego until 1923. After a divorce from Plooma Crowther he settled in San Francisco in Chinatown where he became an instructor at the Art Center while also painting and sketching the densely populated area publishing “The Street of Dragon Lanterns Chinatown of San Francisco†in 1936 while contracting with the Madison & Burke Agency through World War II. Exhibits of his paintings and pen & ink sketches were displayed at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1928 and the Society for Sanity in Art in 1945. See: Maud McB. Maywood Palm City The Chula Vista Star July 9 1937 p. 6; Sketches of San Diego 1919. Carl Frederick Hobby, 1211 Jackson Street, unknown
192863890San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 838 Grant Ave. ca. 1928-1930. One large oil painting on canvas sized 15.25 x 20 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artist’s sister Ruth Annis Hobby Gibbs 1878-1940 and with the original green-stained frame now professionally cleaned faintly touched up in a couple indiscernible spots and backed w/ archival paper. Although unsigned this painting was presented with others by the artist over a 10 year period in the 1920’s-1930’s to his sister and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting captures a street scene of young Chinese-American family strolling past Yee Sang Tong’s Chinese apothecary vividly displaying the historic building’s exterior a peek at the street around-the-corner and the advertising signage fronting the building in Chinese painted by Hobby. These signs include è£•ç”Ÿå ‚ Yee Sang Tong; åƒèŒ¸çŽ‹ç‰Œ Can song wangpai - premium ginseng and deer antler velvet products; and å„é …ä¸¸æ•£è—¥é…’ Ge xiang wan san yaojiu can ring wangpai - pills powders and medicinal tinctures of all kinds. Chinese-American apothecaries and pharmacies continued to be well-respected into the 20th-Century as Chinese-Americans were generally barred access from San Francisco’s hospitals and clinics and were often unfairly blamed for many of the diseases that occasionally swept the city. They often prescribed and distributed such traditional drugs as quinine digitalis and ephedrine. Hobby 1886-1964 was the son of an Iowa City IA ophthalmologist and moved with the family as a teenager to San Diego CA about 1900 about the time his sister Ruth Annis Hobby voyaged to marry her fiance during the Philippine Insurrection in 1899 in Manila. He studied art at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines the Art Students League in New York and became portrait and landscape painter in San Diego until 1923. After a divorce from Plooma Crowther he settled in San Francisco in Chinatown where he became an instructor at the Art Center while also painting and sketching the densely populated area publishing “The Street of Dragon Lanterns Chinatown San Francisco†in 1936 while contracting with the Madison & Burke Agency through World War II. Exhibits of his paintings and pen & ink sketches were displayed at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1928 and the Society for Sanity in Art in 1945. See: Maud McB. Maywood Palm City The Chula Vista Star July 9 1937 p. 6; Elizabeth Fair Zijing Fan Hannibal Taubes Wendy Wan-ting Wang & Yifan Zheng Merchants and Revolutionaries: Chinese-Language Letters Held in the Chico History Museum Butte county Historical Society Diggin’s Vol. 67 No. 4 Winter 2023-2024. Carl Frederick Hobby, 838 Grant Ave., unknown
194034751London: Oxford University Press 1940. First Edition. Illustrated with 56 collotype plates 48 concerning paintings and represented by 36 full-page monochrome plates 3 full-page color plates 7 manifold monochrome plates and 2 manifold color plates. The remaining plates are composed of 5 full-page plates of calligraphy and 3 full-page plates of seals. The multi-folding plates provide the opportunity to view an entire painted scroll or long painting. Title-page printed in red and black. 72 paintings from pre-T'ang times into the Ch'ing dynasty are discussed. Each painting is described and the translation of its seals and inscriptions provided. Large Folio 15.25" x 11.5" publisher's original green polished buckram cloth the spine lettered in gilt the upper cover with gilt decoration of a Chinese seal. xvi 279 plates pp. A fine copy especially clean and bright the binding very strong and showing virtually no wear though with the mark of a cup which at some time was placed on the upper cover. The Supplement is in fine condition as well. FIRST EDITION SCARCE. The Moore collection contains extraordinary illustrations from some of them most important painters and calligraphers in the long history of Chinese art. The subject matter of the book is traversed by the authors of the volume with scholarship and taste their text being accompanied by the fine illustrations most of them in monochrome and some in colour. The authors are full and illuminating in their descriptions their biographical and bibliographical contributions along with their treatment of the inscriptions and seals. The reason for bringing the inscriptions and seals into the foreground is because "calligraphy has long been considered a major art by the Chinese who frequently valued the inscription on a painting as highly or even more highly than the painting itself. A number of the scrolls depicted have inscriptions which certify their authenticity and are also the calligraphy of famous scholars. These contain many valuable comments on the technique of painting and statements of historical and biographical importance. The seals on the scrolls are not only works of art in themselves but are important as a record of the painting or as an expression of appreciation of it."<br> The painters represented come from various dynasties in their noblest estate painters eloquent of the great virtues of the school--a peculiar magic in the interpretation of nature felicity in composition and linear aspect. The plates provide well the Chinese ideas of beauty and style. R. Cortissoz Oxford University Press hardcover
37010501Canton 1820-30's. A framed and glazed hand-painted color ainting frame:53.3 x 43.5 cm. matted painting: ca. 42.5 x 32.5 cm. very clean superb examplefaux bamboo wood frame cryptomeria wood mat. A METICULOUS PAINTING IN FULL COLOR . . . A STUNNING PAINTING SHOWING CHINESE CONCUBINES . . . DRESSED IN ELABORATE SILK COSTUMES . . . WITH INTERIOR VIEWS OF THEIR APARTMENTS . . . PAINTED IN THE TYPICAL MING PERIOD STYLE THE PAINTING EPOCH: . This is a superb example of later Qing dynasty painting. The work was most likely done during either the reigns of Emperor Jiaqing 1796-1820 or Emperor Daoguang 1820-1850. . The delicacy of the lines willow-like Chinese women and the background captures the essence of Chinese painting of this period. Though the scene most likely depicts and earlier period the work was done in the early to mid-19th century. . The hand-coloring is exquisite reflecting high-skill with superb composition. Clearly these artistic skills are by a famous painter of the period. Sadly this work is not signed. It is most likely one of a series of twelve scenes telling a classic story of concubine life in the Imperial palace Beijing. . THE SCENE: The central scene shows the inner apartment of beautiful Chinese women in elaborate & elegant costumes. Because of their refined surroundings furniture decorations screen ceramics lighting and the presence of hand-maids these most likely Imperial Concubines. . Three women sit at a large table. The central woman is painting a large tree. Her companion to the right points a delicate finger at the painting. The woman to the left is seated on a ceramic stool and engages in conversation with the artist. . There two hand-maids at the left who look at each other one holds a tray with two tea cups. . In the background is a very tall and wide folding screen illustrating tenderly painted bamboo sprigs with a superb border at the top and bottom edges. . The room has a beautiful stone table with a lovely flower in full blossom to the background. . The furniture is the typical "Ming" period style There is a lovely table in the right front foreground with three flower vases. . The floor tile are drawn in "Western" perspective showing the lines diminish in size showing the depth of the room. . In the left background is a round door leading to another room. In this room is an elaborately furnished table with comb brush and mirror. Before the mirror is a young & beautiful Chinese women arranging her coiffure. The room is decorated with flower vases ceramic stool wooden table a table cloth and a screened window. . From the activities of the artist its clear that some of the Imperial Concubines were gifted and talented painters. . CONDITION: The Painting: This work is painted in fine laid paper. The painting is in excellent condition there are no marks or defects of any consequence. There is a small lift of the paper in the upper left approximately x cm.xxxxxxxxxxx else the work is immaculate. . The Frame: The wood frame is in excellent condition the cryptomeria wood mat is excellent with a beveled edge in red as issued. . A NOTE ABOUT THE PHOTOS POSTED TO OUR WEBSITE: We post several photos of this painting as the camera light and colors vary in the photos. There are some unavoidable reflections from the lighting above. All discoloration marks and bright spots are reflections on the glass only they are NOT on the actual painting. . REFERENCES: . BERTHOLET Ferry M.: CONCUBINES AND COURTESANS WOMEN IN CHINESE EROTIC ART YIMEN Rev.: DREAMS OF SPRING: EROTIC ART IN CHINA. The Bertholet Collection. VAN GULIK R.H.: SEXUAL LIFE IN ANCIENT CHINA: A Preliminary Survey of Chinese Sex and Society from ca. 1500 B.C. Till 1644 A.D. . --. EROTIC COLOUR PRINTS OF THE MING PERIOD: With An Essay on Chinese Sex Life From the Han to The Ch'ing Dyansty B.C. 206 Chinese Title Ahead of Title PI-HSI TIU KIAO. FRANZBLAU Abraham N.:EROTIC ART OF CHINA: A Unique Collection of Chinese Prints And Items Devoted to The Art of Love. HUMANA Charles. et al.: CHINESE SEX SECRETS: A Look Behind the Screen. . --. THE CHINESE WAY OF LOVE. . --. THE YIN-YANG: The Chinese Way of Love. DE SMEDT Marc.: CHINESE EROTISM. FANG Ru Ruan. et al.: SEX IN CHINA: Studies in Sexology in Chinese Culture. See our listing: CHINESE EROTIC PAINTED SCROLL. A SUITE OF TWELVE UNIQUE EROTIC PAINTED CHINESE SCENES: From the Ch'ing Ping Mei or Erotic Adventures of Hsi-men. JASCHOK Maria.: CONCUBINES AND BONDSERVANTS: A SOCIAL HISTORY STANDAERT Nicolas.: The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts: Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines. Qing Dynasty Emperor Reign Names & Dates: dynasty . . unknown
68992China ca. 1880. Large painting on glass 85.0 x 54.0 cm in contemporary Chinese wooden frame 91.7 x 60.7 cm. = A Chinese reverse painting on glass. This method of painting has a long history in China. These kind of paintings reached Europe in the 18th century and immediately became quite popular. Many were deliberately made for export. Due to their fragility few examples have survived until this day and they are therefore much sought-after fetching high prices at auction. A painting of this unusually large size is not very common. This is an example from the late Qing-dynasty. It likely depicts a ceremony as the children's toys each carry a red ribbon and light. The toys are all animals a dog deer hog and falcon. A very decorative and amazing painting in a very good state with bright and vivid colouring. The frame is very good and in its original state. unknown