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TWO INLAID-BRONZE CONICAL VASES
By Miyabe Atsuyoshi of Kyoto for the
Hamada Company, Meiji (1868-1912) era,
late 19th/early 20th century, circa 1890s
Each worked on the body with an almost
identical design in silver, bronze and shakudo
low-relief relay, depicting a flock of cranes
in flight and others standing in a lotus pond
beside windswept reeds embellished here
and there with silver dewdrops, the neck
and rim decorated in silver flat relief with
repeated geometric, diaper, fragmented
rinzu (textile-weave) and shippo-hanabishi
(flowery-diamond linked-jewels); each signed
on the base with chiselled signature Dai Nihon
Hamada sei Saikyo no junin Atsuyoshi tsukuru
(made by Atsuyoshi of Kyoto for Hamada in
Great Japan). Each vase 25.7cm (10 1/8in)
high. (2).
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£3,500 - 5,000
JPY530,000 - 760,000
US$4,900 - 7,100

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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