Name: Auction: GROUP OF FIVE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY VARIOUS ARTISTS
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 GBP
Availability: InStock

Brushes Across Empire | Wed 11th March from 10am | Lots 1 to 179

Asian Works of Art | Wed 11th March 2026 from 11.30am | Lots 180 to 346

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The Shanghai School of Chinese Paintings

The Shanghai School, also known as the "Haipai" or "Hupai," emerged in the mid-19th century. During this period, Shanghai opened as a treaty port and evolved into the economic and cultural centre of modern China.

The Collector Behind Brushes Across Empire: Sir James Stewart Lockhart

Chinese paintings, ceramics, and works of art from the collection of Sir James Stewart Lockhart.

Welcome to our March 2026 Asian Works of Art auction, led by Brushes Across Empire: Works from the Collection of Sir James Stewart Lockhart (1858 - 1937) (Lots 1 - 179).&nbsp;Comprising approximately 180 lots of Chinese paintings, ceramics and works of art, the collection reflects the scholarly eye of Sir James Stewart Lockhart, who served in Hong Kong from 1879 and later as Commissioner of Weihaiwei. The sale is offered on behalf of, and to benefit, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.gwc.org.uk/">George Watson’s College</a>, Edinburgh.The auction also features a private Glasgow collection of Chinese paintings and ceramics (Lots 186–196), a private English collection of Chinese bronzes and jades (Lots 208–225), Chinese jades from Homer Ling (Lots 227–229), a Perthshire collection of bronzes and wood carvings (Lots 238–246), snuff bottles from Prof. J. Gilbert and Cora McAllister (Lots 267–281), west of Scotland and Renfrewshire collections of Chinese and Japanese works (Lots 302–305; 325–329) and a private UK collection of Southeast Asian art (Lots 343–346).

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ft. Brushes Across Empire: Works from the Collection of Sir James Stewart Lockhart

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歌川豊広 人物騎馬圖、歌川広重 「木曽海道六拾九次之内　須原」、鈴木春信 「見立忠臣蔵　文詠む男女」、渓斉英泉 「河渡&nbsp;長柄川鵜飼船」、喜多川歌麿 「風流子寶合」木刻版畫 鏡框（共五幅）&nbsp;comprising: a centre of a triptych, ‘party of hawkers by a river, with young man on horse and ladies with pantaloons under kimono’, by Utagawa Toyohiro (1773-1828); a ‘Suhara’, from the series ‘Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō’, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858); a ‘Parody of Chūshingura: A Couple Reading A Letter’ (Mitate Chūshingura: Fumi yomu danjo), Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770); a ‘Godo Nagae [Nagara]-gawa ukai fune’&nbsp;(Cormorant-fishing Boats on the Nagara River at Godo),&nbsp;from the series Kisoji no eki&nbsp;(The Stations of the Kiso Road), by Keisai Eisen; and an oban tate-e bijinga&nbsp;print depicting a mother about to breastfeed her infant son from the series&nbsp;Furyu kodakara awase&nbsp;(Fashionable Comparisons of Precious Children),&nbsp;by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), all framed (5)

GROUP OF FIVE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS

BY VARIOUS ARTISTS

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