Lot 11 , A Japanese Buddhist boxwood and giltwood seated figure of Dainichi Nyorai, 19th century

A Japanese Buddhist boxwood and giltwood seated figure of Dainichi Nyorai, 19th century, the boxwood seated deity seated on a giltwood double lotus throne, and tiered hexagonal pedestal, the flaming halo inscribed ‘Yasuoka Ryoun saku’, 36cm high, flaking to lacquer

Gregory Irvine collection.
Gregory Irvine was Senior Curator, Asian Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and held the position of Honorary Senior Research Fellow. His expertise was in Japanese metalwork, arms, armour with a particular focus on cloisonné enamels.
• Honorary Curator, Khalili Collection, Japanese Art of the Meiji period
• Advisor to Brill Publications Journal of Japonisme
• 2012-13: V&A/ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Exchange Fellow
• 2008: Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Visiting Professor
• 2007-8: University of Sussex/V&A Exchange Fellow
• 2006: Nehru Trust Fellow

Gregory Irvine’s publications include -
Meiji, Splendors of Imperial Japan, 1868-1912 (contributor). Musée des Arts asiatiques–Guimet, 2019
Namikawa Yasuyuki and Japanese Cloisonné. The Allure of Meiji Cloisonné: the Aesthetic of Translucent Black Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 2017, Contributor and co-curator
Beyond Imagination: Treasures of Imperial Japan from the Khalili Collection 19th to early 20th century (contributor). Moscow Kremlin Museums, 2017
Japanese Art and Design, (Ed. & contributor) V&A Publishing, 2016
The Dresden State Art Collections: collecting Japan in the 19th Century Arts of Asia, 2014
The Presentation, perception and collecting of Japanese Art in nineteenth century France in Monet, Gauguin, van Gogh... Japanese Inspirations, Museum Folkwang, Essen, 2014
Japonisme and the Rise of the Modern Art Movement: the Arts of the Meiji period, Thames and Hudson, 2013
Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, V&A Publishing, 2011
Collecting Japanese Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Arts of Asia, Volume 39, Number 4, 2009
The Hayashi Revisions revised: Hayashi Tadamasa and the Japanese Art Collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1886, in ‘Hayashi Tadamasa: Japonisme and Cultural Exchange’: Tokyo 2006
Guide to Japanese Art Collections in the UK, Hotei Publications/Japan Society, 2004
The Japanese Sword, the Soul of the Samurai, V&A Publications, London, 2000
£200-300

Condition:
Some occasional small flake losses to the lacquer visible from the front and but considerable loss to the lacquer on the reverse, somewhat grubby and would benefit from a clean, otherwise in reasonable condition.