Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and tsuyazuri
height 137 mm × width 185 mm
Utagawa Kunisada (I) (attributed to)
Saddle and Ladle
Japan, 1834
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Kunsthandel Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1990;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-670
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
A lacquered saddle, a ladle to water a horse, and a branch of blossoming plum.
In gold on the saddle the numerals for the long months, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10 and 12; on the ladle, those of the short months, 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 11. Even though the print features tsuyazuri, the overall execution is quite amateurish, suggesting this is a picture calendar, egoyomi, in the tradition of the 1780s.
No poems.
Calendar for Tenpo 5, 1834, Year of the Horse, Tenpo go uma [no] daisho.
Issued by the designer
Unsigned
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 213
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'attributed to Utagawa (I) Kunisada, Saddle and Ladle, Japan, 1834', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422490
(accessed 26 November 2024 11:22:17).