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NOGAWA COMPANY 野川社 Founded in Kyoto in 1825, during the Meiji era the Nogawa
A Bronze Vase with a Pheasant in a Cherry-Tree Company developed into a commissioning house that showed at
桜雉子図象嵌ブロンズ花瓶 major international expositions between 1893 and 1910 as well as
Meiji era (1868–1912), 1890s at the Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai (Domestic Industrial Promotion
Of elongated baluster form with flat shoulder and short splayed Exhibitions) in 1881 and 1890. The company had a popular store
mouth, the bronze with a fine mottled brown patination, chiseled which was on the “must-see” list for international globetrotters, as
and with delicate relief decoration in gold, silver, shakudō, shibuichi, well as showrooms in the Kyoto and Miyako Hotels.
and copper depicting a pheasant perched on the branch of a
flowering cherry tree, the base chiseled with the mark of the Nogawa Reference
Company, combining stylized versions of the hiragana no の and the Tōkyō Kokuritsu Bunkazai Kenkyūjo 東京国立文化財研究所 1997
kanji kawa 川 nos. II, 1737, 1738, 1837–1839 and IIIb, 789–790
Height 9 5/8 in. (24.3 cm)

$8,000 - 10,000

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