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The wheel of life
Lost Art-ID
622254
Artist / Creator
Isoda Koriusai
Lebensdaten
1720-1782 (um/around)
Title
The wheel of life
Dating
1720/1782 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
printed (woodcut) polychrome
Height
22.00 cm
Width
16.00 cm
Description
Two Orian (noble prostitutes) with magic lantern or wheel of life; through round window one sees pine; from a twelve-leaf month (pine) series of modern beauties; colours: yellow, brown, vivid orange; signed.
Provenance
[...] - at least at the end of 1929 Ostasiatica collection Herbert Ginsberg, Berlin; after 1945 no longer in the possession of Herbert Ginsberg; circumstances of loss unknown - a loss as a result of Nazi persecution cannot be ruled out. Whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Undatierter Katalog (um Nov. 1929), in: DigiBaeck, Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI NY), Gilbert Family Collection, AR 1028/MF 818, Box 7, folder 4, S. 690-921, 690-921, Abschnitt: Japanische Holzschnitte, Nr. 58.
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