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AN INLAID-IRON KOGO (INCENSE BOX) JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART | 129
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Worked throughout in silver and gold nunomezogan with a moon par-
tially hidden by wind-blown branches of flowering hagi (bush clover),
the design continuing on the lower section, with a gold-lined interior,
the base signed Mi[un] saku
2 3/4in (7cm) diameter

US$1,200 - 1,800

6290
A SMALL INLAID-IRON TABLE SCREEN
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho era (1912-1926), early 20th century
Decorated with a temple complex before Mount Fuji, a figure caught in
a thunderstorm, leafing bamboo, and a long-tailed rooster in silver and
gold hirazogan, the lower panels with leafy vines, the reverse gilt and
decorated with swallows and a cherry tree carved in katakiribori
5 x 9 1/2in ( 12.7 x 24.1cm) (open)

US$800 - 1,200

6291
TAKASAKI KOICHI
A mixed-metal and enamel bottle vase with a rooster and chick
Meiji era (1869-1912), c. 1900
The slender, pear-shaped vase with an extended neck flaring slightly to
the rim, the body finished in shibuichi and the neck silver, the two sur-
faces divided by a narrow section of silver of brighter patination in the
shape of a cherry blossom, the body decorated with a bantam rooster,
hen and chick, rendered in raised, transparent enamels of various
colors and grasses and plants in colored relief inlay and engraving, the
ground finished in two shades of shibuichi in imitation of mist, signed
on the underside Takasaki seizo
9 1/2in (24.9cm) high

US$6,000 - 8,000

The enameler Takasaki Koichi exhibited a pair of silver vases at the
Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, see Bijutsu Gaho, Daini rinji zokan
Bijutsu Gaho Pari Hakurankai Shuppin Kumiai seisakuhin (Extra Issue
No. 2 of Fine Arts Magazine Containing Illustrations and Descriptions of
Products of the Paris World Exposition Exhibiter's Union). Tokyo, 1900,
unpaginated. He often collaborated with enamel artists.