Hotei with Fan and Sack

Name: Hotei with Fan and Sack
SKU: 4137
Price: 180.00 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

Kakemono, unique work, with box, 147 x 70 cm

Product number: 4137

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Details about the sold piece

Height 147 cm
Width 70 cm
Item Type Kakemono
Jikusaki Sculpture
Material Honshi Silk
Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
Technique Hand-Painted
Unique Work Yes
Wooden Box Yes

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Description

With few but confident brushstrokes, this depicts Hotei, the portly god of fortune with a bald head, round belly, and flowing beard – a popular figure in Japanese painting representing contentment, generosity, and good fortune. His characteristic sack, from which he distributes prosperity, is suggested in the background.

The loose, almost caricature-like brushwork lends the figure a cheerful, approachable presence typical of depictions of this god of fortune. Such motifs were often hung at the turn of the year or as a wish for prosperity and contentment.

The painting is executed on silk and dates from the Shôwa period; the roller rods are made of plastic. The hanging scroll is delivered in a signed wooden box, which underscores its value. With its cheerful motif, this hanging scroll is excellently suited as a bringer of good fortune for the home or study.

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Because the two pieces of information speak about different things: the period designation describes the object – support, colors, condition – while the signature reflects which name appears on the painting. In most cases there is no attempt at deception behind this, but rather Japanese painting training: copying from workshop models was the curriculum for centuries, an utsushi is regarded as a bow to the teacher, workshops signed with the master's name, and artist names were passed down within a school. Such a hanging scroll is therefore not a forgery, but a hand-painted one-of-a-kind that continues the formal language of its school – just not the work of the famous name, and priced accordingly. We explain this in detail in the guide Why does a kakemono often bear the signature of an artist long deceased?.

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