Sworders: Asian Art | Part Two, A1255, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 16, 2025 - December 16, 2025
Page Size: 31 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
20

Two Japanese prints of Kabuki actors,

19th century, GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 130.00
23 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865)

19th century, a print depicting a Kabuki actor

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
35

Two Japanese prints from the series 'Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)',

19th century GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
45 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865),

a woodblock print triptych depicting a scene from the play Kinoshita Soga Megumi no Masagoji,

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
55 Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790-1848),

a woodblock print depicting a courtesan in a kimono with koi carp,

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 156.00
64 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni II' (Japanese, 1823-1880),

two prints, 20th century, one Wakana from Tales of Genji, and the other Ukibune from Tales of Genji,

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
86

A Japanese woodblock triptych print,

19th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
87 Tadashi Nakayama (1927-2014) Keiko Minami (1909/11-2004)

Two Japanese woodblock prints, 'Horses'; 'Spring'

1958, nd GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
92 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865),

19th century, a woodblock triptych print of the palace scene in the play Meiboku Sendai Hagi,

19th century GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 117.00
102

Three Japanese woodblock prints,

19th-20th century GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 117.00
148

Two early catalogues of Chinese Song Dynasty paintings,

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 156.00
165

Chinese album leaves of the Forty-Eight Views of Jinling,

late 19th/early 20th century GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 286.00
172 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865),

19th century, three woodblock prints, comprising:

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 156.00
173

A Persian photo album,

20th century GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
189

An Indian panoramic photograph,

early 20th century GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 117.00
190 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865),

19th century, a woodblock triptych print of three women under a cherry blossom tree,

19th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
201 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865),

19th century, a woodblock print of a kabuki play with the actors Sawamura Chojuro V as Tomoenojo and Iwai Kumesaburo III as Oshu Yukon,

19th century GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
213 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865),

a woodblock triptych print depicting a scene from Hana no Iro Yatsushi Kuronushi,

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
235 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865),

19th century, a woodblock triptych print of the play Kinoshita Soga Megumi no Masagoji,

19th century GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
269 Takahashi Shotei (Japanese, 1871-1945)

Nikko Sugi Namiki (Cryptomeria Road in Nikko)

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 65.00
290 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865),

19th century, a woodblock triptych of the kabuki play Hana no Iro Yatsushi Kuronushi,

19th century GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
296 Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, fl.1840-1880),

19th century, a woodblock triptych of Naoe Kanetsugu in Battle,

19th century GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 182.00
327 Utagawa Kunisada 'Toyokuni III' (Japanese, 1786-1865),

three woodblock prints, one depicting a kabuki actor, and two memorial portraits, one of actor Onoe Kikugoro IV and his wife Shima, and the other of the actor Bando Shiuka I

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
342

A Jain manuscript,

18th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
345

An Indian folio from a manuscript,

19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
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