A Set of Two Japanese Gilt Lacquered Wood Figures of Seated Kannon

19th/20th Century

depicting two seated figures of kannon above blossoming lotus flowers, both hands clasped at front, the two figures flanking a pagoda-form tablet carved with five characters, the Lotus Sutra, further supported on a lotus plinth and a rectangular base.

Height 11 3/8 in., 28.9 cm.

Property from the José M. Neistein Collection

This lot is located in Washington D.C..

JOSÉ MENACHE NEISTEIN (1934-2020) was born in São Paulo, Brazil in a Jewish immigrant family. He was an intellectual and appreciator of different artistic and cultural fields, performing throughout his life activities as a critic, teacher, curator, cultural attache, lecturer, and art collector.

Residing in the United States from 1970 to 2020, Neistein was invited by the Itamaraty to occupy the position of Cultural Attaché at the Brazilian Embassy as

Executive-Director of the Brazilian-American Cultural Institute (BACI) in Washington D.C. During the same period, Prof. Neistein was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a Contributing Editor for the

Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.

José Neistein's art collection, universal and eclectic, had been developed over 50 years of acquisition and study. Its growth reflected, all over the years, the diversification of the collector’s interests, the maturing of his taste, and the

deepening of its quality.

Soiling, lacquer loss, and rubbing throughout. One figure broken of at the lotus base at the side of old restorations (tape & glue), several lotus petals broken off, and retained. The whole wobbles slightly.

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

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Japanese & Korean Works of Art

A Set of Two Japanese Gilt Lacquered Wood Figures of Seated Kannon

Japanese & Korean Works of Art

A Set of Two Japanese Gilt Lacquered Wood Figures of Seated Kannon

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