Sotheby’s to offer Shibata Zeshin panel in London sale
This framed wood panel decorated in gold, silver and red lacquer with a pair of spiny lobsters on a rocky outcrop is signed 'Gyoen Hachijuni O Koma Zeshin' (An old man in his 82nd year, Kona Zeshin) and dated 1888.
During his last years the acclaimed lacquer artist Shibata Zeshin made several large format pictor…