Mochizuki Kinpô (1846-1915)

Description:

Japan, Osaka, dated in the box 1885
104 x 42.7 cm
Tiger. Ink and colours on silk, mounted as a hanging scroll. Signed: Kinpô; Seal: Manabu in. Original wooden box (tomobako), labelled on the lid: Tora zu ippuku (picture of a tiger one scroll); labelled inside the lid: Meiji kinoto-tori (1885), ichigatsu (1st month), sign. and seal: Kinpô.
From the collection of the chemist, engineer and director of Merck & Co. Heinrich Georg Johann Harms (3.9.1906-28.6.1975) and his wife Eva Harms (10.11.1905-13.10.1998), largely collected in Shanghai between 1935 and 1942 - Traces of age, somewhat stained, minor damages due to age