Auction: October 17, 2021

Lot #150: Artwork Assortment

(11) undated items including a Japanese woodblock print, signed and having chop seal depicting a woman on the deck of a ship, double matted in a blue and gold-toned frame behind glass; a Japanese print on fabric, signed and having chop seal depicting a floral scene, white silk matted in a gold-toned frame behind glass; a Chinese print on fabric depicting (6) aristocratically-dressed female figures in an architectural structure, natural wood matted in a natural wood frame having black and red inner and outer edges behind glass; a small contemporary Asian print depicting (4) embossed and colored masks and (4) embossed characters having their English translations beneath them, matted in an intentionally distressed red and gold-toned frame behind glass; an Egyptian-style painting on papyrus depicting a scene from the after-life having Anubis, son of Osiris, escorting the deceased so their heart, currently inside a canopic jar, may be weighed against the feather of truth, to see which is heavier and thus determine whether the deceased may enter the after-life or have their heart devoured by the creature Ammit who is shown waiting eagerly under the scale while Osiris and his consorts look on, mounted on paper creating large margins in a gold-toned frame behind glass; and (6) offset lithograph reproductions depicting early hot air balloons and a diagram for a winged mechanical human flying machine, all double matted in uniformly sized dark-toned natural wood frames behind glass