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AN INLAID BRONZE PEAR-SHAPED VASE AN INLAID BRONZE CYLINDRICAL BRUSHPOT
By Suzuki Chokichi (1848-1919), Meiji era (1868-1912), 1870s-1880s By the Nogawa Company, Meiji era (1868-1912), early 20th century
The body worked in gold, bronze and silver relief inlay with a bag of Supported on three bronze bracket feet, decorated in gilt, silver,
minomushi (bagworm moths) suspended from trailing branches of bronze and shibuichi flat inlay with a wide central band encircling the
kaki (persimmon) fruits and worm-eaten foliage, the neck and foot body enclosing butterflies hovering among spring plants and leaves
decorated repeated geometric motifs in fine flat inlay of silver, gilt and on a shakudo ground, the top with shippo-hanabishi (flowery-diamond
hido (red copper); stamped on the base Dai Nihon Kako tsukuru linked-jewels), the bottom with a band of interlocking rectangles,
(made by Kako in Great Japan). reserved on a bronze ground; signed on the base with the silver flat-
20.5cm (8in) high. inlaid mark of the Nogawa Company. 9.5cm (3¾in) high.

£6,000 - 8,000 £1,000 - 1,500
JPY910,000 - 1,200,000 JPY150,000 - 230,000
US$8,500 - 11,000 US$1,400 - 2,100

For a related example by Jomi Eisuke, another Kyoto company, see
Bonhams, Image and Ornament: A Special Exhibition of Masterpieces
of Metalwork from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue, New York,
9-17 March 2017, cat. no.21.

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