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Marine life gassaku

Signed:	Shōtei, Shōsō and Gyokuden
Sealed:	unread
Date:	c.1880 (?)
Size:	181 x 34.5 cms (mounting) 98.6 x 30.2 cms (painting) 71 x 13 inch (mounting) 39 x 12 inch (painting)
Technique:	sumi and colours on paper
Condition:	Chūberi(middle part) of flower-patterned brown&gold silk, ichimonji & futai of gold brocade, black wooden rollers, box.
Price:	600 Euro
Literature:	An interesting collaboration of three painters, Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918), Murase Gyokuden (1852-1917), a pupil of Murase Sōseki, and Mishima Shōsō (1852-1914), who, like Seitei, was a pupil of Kikuchi Yōsai. It is tempting to suppose that this painting was made while they were still students, their ages being so similar. Roberts, p. 194
Signature:	See signature
Detail:	See detail
Mounting:	See mounting